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This volume examines the origins and evolution of modernism in American verse from Dickinson to the objectivist movement, offering imaginative readings of those writers who helped create a distinctive American poetic voice.

Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.

A fascinating body of oral histories that illuminate the personal experiences of mill workers in the twentieth century. An invaluable source of Massachusetts history for scholars and an enlightening work for general readers.

PART NARRATIVE, part analysis, this book reconstructs the complex history of the southeastern New England textile industry during the nineteenth century. Mary H. Blewett takes a fresh look at the process of industrialization from the point of view of management as well as labor and reinterprets the struggle between the two in terms of class, culture, and power. Highlighting the role of contingency and human agency in the shaping of historical ...

Understanding migration through the lives and fiction of migrant workers in New England