Amoskeag: life and work in an American factory city/ by Tamara K. Hareven.
- Title:
- Amoskeag: life and work in an American factory city/ by Tamara K. Hareven.
- Author:
- Hareven, Tamara K.,
- Call Number:
- 338.767 H247a c.2
- Publication Information:
- New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.
- Physical Description:
- 395p.: Illustrations; 23.5 cm.
- Description:
- For nearly a century, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was chief architect of the social, ethnic, and economic existence of Manchester, New Hampshire. In the early 1900s, it was the largest textile mill in the world, employing 17,000; its red brick facade stretched for nearly a mile along the Merrimack River and its payroll drew immigrants by the thousands. In their own words, laborers, foremen, managers, and town residents paint a detailed portrait of the mills nearly feudal dominance of every aspect of their lives and offer their response to this existence, with fierce pride and an unshakable sense of community. When competition, labor unrest, and obsolescence caught up with the mill in 1936, a weaver recalls, the mills went out and the world stopped for everybody.
- Locations:
- Manchester (N.H.).
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- Credit Line:
- Gift; December 28, 2022;
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