Bread and Roses: Mills Migrants and the Struggle for the American Dream (SIGNED COPY)
by: Watson, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. SIGNED BY WATSON on title page. A history of the winter of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts that began when thousands of workers stormed out of the massive textile mills that lined the Merrimack River north of Boston. After receiving their paychecks that morning, they were protesting a pay cut, but were really on strike for their lives. Black and white photographs. Remainder line bottom edge, otherwise clean.