دانلود کتاب The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike

Robert Forrant and Jurg Siegenthaler have compiled an exciting collection of new perspectives on the epic Bread and Roses strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Drawing upon their experience as two of the leading organizers of the recent centennial celebrations of the strike, the editors have also composed a thoughtful introduction and included several insightful essays that highlight the importance of historical commemorations for our times. --James Green, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Boston, Author, Death in the Haymarket

The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 is a bold collection of scholarly work that brilliantly explores the events and offers new interpretations of the 1912 strike. In particular, the book enhances our understanding of the strike s history, illustrates the power of collective action, and educates us about the issues that sparked the strike and that resonate in our lives today. The men, women, and children of the Bread and Roses strike are well-served by this work. --Susan Grabski, Executive Director, Lawrence History Center, Coauthor, Lawrence and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike

This new Bread and Roses book offers a welcome opportunity to rethink the history of the Lawrence strike and to remember this important moment in the immigrant worker s struggle for social justice. That history is more relevant today than ever. --Michael Honey, Haley Professor of Humanities, University of Washington Tacoma, Author, Going Down Jericho Road

About the Author
Robert Forrant is a University of Massachusetts Lowell Professor of History and chaired the Lawrence-based Bread and Roses Centennial Committee. He received his PhD from the university of Massachusetts Amherst in 1994. Before that he worked as a machinist. He co-curated The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, Massachusetts, That Changed Labor History for the Digital Public Library of America. Recent publications include The Big Move: Immigrant Voices From a Mill City, with Christoph Strobel (Loom Press, 2011); and Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley (2009). He serves as historian to numerous Teaching American History grants, is on the board of the Lawrence History Center, and works with the Tsongas Industrial History Center in Lowell, Massachusetts, on its National Endowment for the Humanities summer teachers residency program. Jurg Siegenthaler is emeritus professor of social policy at American University in Washington, DC. He received his PhD from the University of Bern and was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He also was a visiting researcher at the International Social Security Association and the U.S. Social Security Administration. His teaching and research have mainly encompassed the social and economic history of industrialization. He has written on producers cooperatives, long-term changes in workers standard of living, and work and technology, and published a book comparing the environmental and social costs of industrialization in a Swiss textile valley and the coal economy of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Siegenthaler has been a member of the Bread and Roses Heritage Committee in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and a co-coordinator of the Lawrence History Live speakers tent at the Bread and Roses Heritage Festival on Labor Day.