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Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City (Library of New England)

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First published in 1978, this classic book, through vivid oral histories and historic photographs, documents the social and cultural affect of the industry all through The usa’s rise as a manufacturing power. For almost a century, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was once chief architect of the social, ethnic, and economic existence of Manchester, New Hampshire. Within the early 1900s, it was once the largest textile mill on the earth, employing 17,000; its red brick facade stretched For almost a mile along the Merrimack River and its payroll drew immigrants by the thousands. In their very own words, laborers, foremen, managers, and town residents paint a detailed portrait of the mill’s nearly feudal dominance of each aspect in 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.”

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