books: textile worker

books: textile worker

books:

Textile worker

Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism

Peter Winn

Oxford University Press, USA, 1989

A tapestry of voices from the trenches of revolution
Winn's book gives a detailed (and Trotskyist) account of a "revolution from below" that transpired during Allende's "revolution from above." It depicts the struggles of textile workers as they grew conscious of their class standing, became unionized and, ultimately, ...

Bells of Lowell, 3-in-1
Tracie Peterson, Judith Miller

Bethany House, 2007

As the Industrial Revoltion sweeps across the land, three adventuresome women will be transformed when they become "mill girls" Daughter of the Loom--Forced to work in the mill as her only means of survival, Lilly Armbruster is deeply resentful of the powerful mill owners she believes forced her father's premature death. Lily is torn, however, ...

To Make My Bread (Radical Novel Reconsidered)

Grace Lumpkin

University of Illinois Press, 1996

It is a GREAT book!
I had never heard of Grace Lumpkin until a friend of mine took a Southern Women Writer's course. She suggested I read To Make My Bread. The book outlines the struggles people from Appalachia had to contend with while trying to reform labor problems. I would ...

The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1845)

W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Undiminishing usefulness and interest.
I bought and read this fine collection of stories and essays from the Lowell Offering, the publication edited and written by the young women and girls who worked in the Lowell, Mass. textile mills in the first half of the 1840s, when it was first published. And I have ...

Turn Homeward, Hannalee

Patricia Beatty

HarperTrophy, 1999

Excellent Book, But Not For Younger Readers
This is a fantastic story of little known historical events during the Civil War. It is well written, captivating, and historically accurate. The main character is endearing and brave, and all the characters throughout the book are fleshed out and very believable. ...

A Fragile Design (Bells of Lowell Series #2)

Tracie Peterson, Judith McCoy Miller

Bethany House Publishers, 2003

Excellent
Bella is a young woman with ideas that don't always fit the times. She has her own mind and likes to use it and when her head isn't turned by the attractive Taylor, he sets out to make her fall for him, but somewhere along the way he falls for her. When Bella in ...

The Bobbin Girl

Emily Arnold McCully

Dial, 1996

Bobbin Girl - a great way to teach about the Lowell Mills
I am an 8th grade history teacher and I use this book every year when I am teaching about the Lowell Mills and the Industrial Revolution. The students love it and it really helps open up a discussion about the positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution

Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860

Thomas Louis Dublin

Columbia University Press, 1981

Women at Work
While this book was extremely informative about the changing textile industry in the mid-nineteenth century, I would not recommend it to anyone looking for interesting reading. Dublin was very precise in his statistical information regarding the make-up of the ...

Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance Among Garment Workers in Thailand
Piya Pangsapa

ILR Press, 2007

Based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, Textures of Struggle focuses on the experiences of Thai women who are employed at textile factories and examines how the all-encompassing nature of wage work speaks to issues of worker accommodation and resistance within various factory settings. Why are some women less tolerant of their ...

Farm to Factory

Columbia University Press, 1993

Letters Tell the Story
Farm to Factory is a collection of letters written between young girls and their family and friends while they lived at factory run mills. The letters are insightful and give a new meaning to the place of young women in the early workforce of America. The girls ...

Unravelling

Elizabeth Graver

Harvest Books, 1999

Not easy for a girl to break out in the 1800s in New England
Aimee Slater lives on a farm in New England, but she's got a modern girl's desire for a bigger life. Against her parents' wishes, Aimee goes to work in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. What happens between then and when we see her again in her 30s living alone in ...

Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty in the South
Victoria Byerly

Cornell University Press, 1986

Plant Life

Pamela Duncan

Delacorte Press, 2003

An excellent title for a wonderful book
This book was so good it inspired me to write my first review. It is an exceptionally well-written perspective of small town southern life. The author develops interesting characters that make you feel as if you are living life through their eyes. She bring you to ...

These Tangled Threads (Bells of Lowell Series #3)

Tracie Peterson, Judith McCoy Miller

Bethany House Publishers, 2003

Peterson and Miller once again make a great writing team!
The third book in the Bells of Lowell series captures the story of Daughtie as she fights for the equality of every citizen, regardless of heritage. From the implications of her association with an Irish worker to her stand of beliefs due to workplace conditions, her ...

Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960 ...
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear

Duke University Press, 2000

Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “capitalist paradise.” By the 1960s, the city’s textile industrialists were presenting themselves as the architects of a social ...