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On January 12, 1912, a military of textile staff stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since change into referred to as the “Bread and Roses” strike. In line with newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands of parading strikers from fifty-one nations, unforgettable acts of cruelty, or even a chronic murder trial that tested the bounds of free speech. A rousing have a look at a seminal and overpassed chapter of the past, Bread and Roses is indispensable reading.