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The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912?the Bread and Roses Strike?was a public protest by 20,000 to 25,000 immigrant workers from several countries, prompted by a wage cut. Backed by skillful neighborhood organizing, supported by hundreds of acts of solidarity, and unified by a commitment to respect every striker?s nationality and language, the walkout spread across the city?s densely packed tenements. Defying the assumptions of mill owners and conservative trade unionists alike that largely female and ethnically diverse workers could not be organized, the women activists, as one mill boss described them, were full of ?lots of cunning and also lots of bad temper. They?re everywhere, and it?s getting worse all the time.? Events in Lawrence between January 11 and March 25, 1912, changed labor history. In this volume the authors tackle the strike story through new lenses and dispel assumptions that the citywide walkout was a spontaneous one led by outside agitators. They also discuss the importance of grasping the significance of events like the 1912 strike and engaging in the process of community remembrance. CHAPTER 1Introduction Robert Forrant and Jurg SiegenthalerCHAPTER 2??Believe Comrades . . . the Day is Coming When Those at the End of Their Rope Will Require Struggle. It Will Be, Perhaps, Tomorrow.?Franco-Belgian Immigrants and the 1912 Strike? Janelle BourgeoisCHAPTER 3The Committee of Ten: The Local Heroes Who Faced Lawrence?s Mill Men and Won in 1912 Clarisse A. PoirierCHAPTER 4In Harm?s Way: The Lawrence Textile Strike Children?s Affair Lawrence CappelloCHAPTER 5Why Labor Won: Tactical Innovation, Failed Repression, and Turning Points in the Bread and Roses Strike Robert BiggertCHAPTER 6The Parades: Evolving Views of God and Country and the IWW in Lawrence Ken EsteyStrike ImagesCHAPTER 7The ?American Dream? and the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike Frank FletcherCHAPTER 8Voices of Labor Militancy in Lawrence, 1912?1931 Ethan SnowCHAPTER 9Striking Women: Massachusetts Mill Workers in the Wake of Bread and Roses, 1912?1913 Anne F. Mattina and Domenique CiavattoneCHAPTER 10The Triangle Fire Centennial Commemoration Adrienne Sosin and Joel SosinskyCHAPTER 11The Cloth From Which We Are Cut: Using Music, Narration, and Images to Tell the Story of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Vicki Gabriner and Linda SternCHAPTER 12Lessons Learned: A Comparison of the Textile and Apparel Industry of Early 19th-Century Lawrence and Lowell with China Today Virginia M. NoonCHAPTER 13Bread and Roses: Why the Legend Lives On Robert RossEditors? BiographiesAuthor BiographiesIndex
The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912?the Bread and Roses Strike?was a public protest by 20,000 to 25,000 immigrant workers from several countries, prompted by a wage cut. Backed by skillful neighborhood organizing, supported by hundreds of acts of solidarity, and unified by a commitment to respect every striker?s nationality and language, the walkout spread across the city?s densely packed tenements. Defying the assumptions of mill owners and conservative trade unionists alike that largely female and ethnically diverse workers could not be organized, the women activists, as one mill boss described them, were full of ?lots of cunning and also lots of bad temper. They?re everywhere, and it?s getting worse all the time.? Events in Lawrence between January 11 and March 25, 1912, changed labor history. In this volume the authors tackle the strike story through new lenses and dispel assumptions that the citywide walkout was a spontaneous one led by outside agitators. They also discuss the importance of grasping the significance of events like the 1912 strike and engaging in the process of community remembrance. CHAPTER 1Introduction Robert Forrant and Jurg SiegenthalerCHAPTER 2??Believe Comrades . . . the Day is Coming When Those at the End of Their Rope Will Require Struggle. It Will Be, Perhaps, Tomorrow.?Franco-Belgian Immigrants and the 1912 Strike? Janelle BourgeoisCHAPTER 3The Committee of Ten: The Local Heroes Who Faced Lawrence?s Mill Men and Won in 1912 Clarisse A. PoirierCHAPTER 4In Harm?s Way: The Lawrence Textile Strike Children?s Affair Lawrence CappelloCHAPTER 5Why Labor Won: Tactical Innovation, Failed Repression, and Turning Points in the Bread and Roses Strike Robert BiggertCHAPTER 6The Parades: Evolving Views of God and Country and the IWW in Lawrence Ken EsteyStrike ImagesCHAPTER 7The ?American Dream? and the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike Frank FletcherCHAPTER 8Voices of Labor Militancy in Lawrence, 1912?1931 Ethan SnowCHAPTER 9Striking Women: Massachusetts Mill Workers in the Wake of Bread and Roses, 1912?1913 Anne F. Mattina and Domenique CiavattoneCHAPTER 10The Triangle Fire Centennial Commemoration Adrienne Sosin and Joel SosinskyCHAPTER 11The Cloth From Which We Are Cut: Using Music, Narration, and Images to Tell the Story of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Vicki Gabriner and Linda SternCHAPTER 12Lessons Learned: A Comparison of the Textile and Apparel Industry of Early 19th-Century Lawrence and Lowell with China Today Virginia M. NoonCHAPTER 13Bread and Roses: Why the Legend Lives On Robert RossEditors? BiographiesAuthor BiographiesIndex