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• The Little Canadas of New England: Third Annual Conference of the French Institute/Assumption College (Worcester, Massachusetts, March 13, 1982)

  A published collection of the papers presented at Assumption College's French Institute for its third annual academic conference. Dedicated to Thomas M. Landry, OP, who chose the topic of the conference which serves as the collection's title. Contains the following essays: -"Geographic and Demographic Forces Facilitating Ethnic Survival in a New England Mill Town: The Franco-Americans of Biddeford Maine" (Michael J. Guignard) -"The Settling-in Process: The Beginnings of Little Canada in Lowell Massachusetts in the Late Nineteenth Century" (Frances H. Early), -"Neighbors from the North: French-Canadian Immigrants vs. Trade Unionism in Fall River, Massachusetts" (Philip T. Silvia), -"Culture, Community, and Politics: French Canadians in Massachusetts, 1885-1915" (Ronald A. Petrin), -"The Preservation of Ethnic Identity in the Franco-American Villages of Lincoln, Rhode Island" (Peter L. Moreau), -"Beyond Textiles: Industrial Diversity and the Franco-American Experience in Worcester, Massachusetts" (Charles W. Estus and Kenneth J. Moynihan)

  Tags Albion RI, Biddeford ME, Blackstone River Valley, Central Falls RI, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut River Valley, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Hopeville MA, Jamesville MA, Labor History, Limerock RI, Lincoln RI, Lonsdale RI, Lowell MA, Maine, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, New England, New Hampshire, New Worcester MA, North Adams MA, Providence RI, Québec, Quinebaug River Valley, Religion, Rhode Island, Salem MA, Saylesville RI, South Worcester MA, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Trowbridgeville MA, Valley Falls MA, Ware MA, Worcester MA
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  Lewis Hine's Photography and Reform in Rhode Island

  Article on Lewis Hine's photographic work for the National Child Labor Committee, its ties with the National Consumers' League, and the photographer's place among progressive and humanitarian labor reform in early twentieth-century Rhode Island. The child welfare concerns and women and child labor reform initiatives of Alice Hunt and others of the Rhode Island Consumers' League during that time. How Hine's photographs reflect the humanitarian concerns of the political organizations with which he was associated. Examples of Hine's Rhode Island work in the publications of the NCLC, and the ways in which Rhode Island evidence of poor working and living conditions became part of national conversations about child welfare and housing reform, immigration, and, as the author puts it, "the dignity of work" (49). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes a list of Lewis Hine photographs held at the Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

  Tags Chicago IL, Emigration and Immigration, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Italian Americans, Lonsdale RI, Mills and Mill Work, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Pawtucket RI, Pawtuxet River Valley, Photography, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Social History, Warren RI, Youth
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  The Run of the Mill : A Pictorial Narrative of the Expansion, Dominion, Decline, and Enduring Impact of the New England Textile Industry

  A chronicle of centuries of labor in black and white photographs. Historical and modern perspectives on mills, industrial towns, and workers in New England from the earliest industrialization period to the 1970s. From the inside flap: "The full force of American capitalism was first released through the creation, consolidation, and incredible profitability of the New England textile industry. It was along the energetic waterways of the Northeast that the Industrial Revolution cut its teeth, there that real manufacturing initially occurred, that goods, produced on native soil, were first distributed in substantial quantities. There, in short, that the modern corporation was conceived. This fascinating, generously illustrated and extensively documented study presents the full scope of that phenomenon by concentrating on its single most powerful and successful manifestation: the textile mill. This was America's first integrated history, so immense in its concentration that in 1832, of 106 manufacturing concerns in the United States with assets of over $100,000, a full 88 were listed as textile companies.... Dunwell's survey is divided into two sections. The first, replete with 250 photographs and sketches from a wide variety of sources, gives an historical overview, a concentrated history of the textile mill in New England from the early developments in native technology to the final abandonment of the region. The second examines the living remnants of the industry...Here he presents the people who are still working in the mills..."

  Tags Allendale RI, Androscoggin River Valley, Arctic RI, Ashton RI, Baltic CT, Blackstone MA, Burrillville RI, Cabotville MA, Charles River Valley, Community: Customs and Social Life, Derby CT, Dover NH, Emigration and Immigration, England, Exeter RI, Fiskeville RI, Forestdale RI, Georgiaville RI, Globe Village MA, Great Falls NH, Grosvenordale CT, Hadley Falls MA, Hockanum River Valley, Kenyon RI, Labor History, Lonsdale RI, Manchang MA, Manville RI, Mechanicsville CT, Middletown CT, Mills and Mill Work, Millville MA, New London CT, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, North Billerica MA, North Uxbridge MA, Olneyville RI, Pascoag RI, Religion, Riverpoint RI, Rockville CT, Sawyerville NH, Slatersville RI, Social History, Stafford Springs CT, Susquehanna River Valley, Valley Falls RI, Versailles CT, Wappingers Falls NY, Wauregan CT, Whitinsville MA, Wilkinsonville CT, Winchendon MA, Woodville RI, Wyoming RI, Yantic CT
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  Lewis Hine's Photography and Reform in Rhode Island

  Article on Lewis Hine's photographic work for the National Child Labor Committee, its ties with the National Consumers' League, and the photographer's place among progressive and humanitarian labor reform in early twentieth-century Rhode Island. The child welfare concerns and women and child labor reform initiatives of Alice Hunt and others of the Rhode Island Consumers' League during that time. How Hine's photographs reflect the humanitarian concerns of the political organizations with which he was associated. Examples of Hine's Rhode Island work in the publications of the NCLC, and the ways in which Rhode Island evidence of poor working and living conditions became part of national conversations about child welfare and housing reform, immigration, and, as the author puts it, "the dignity of work" (49). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes a list of Lewis Hine photographs held at the Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

  Tags Chicago IL, Emigration and Immigration, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Italian Americans, Lonsdale RI, Mills and Mill Work, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Pawtucket RI, Pawtuxet River Valley, Photography, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Social History, Warren RI, Youth