Textile workers in post-Civil-War-era Fall River, Massachusetts. The rapid economic and demographic growth of a city that would become New England's largest center for manufacturing. Immigrant worker diversity and some realities of their Fall River labor and living conditions. Industrial development's impact on the worker. Fall River's national reputation as being a "turbulent" environment for laborers, and a history of the business procedures and philosophies that point to this (238). Commentary on the 1881 study of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics with specific consideration for the lives of laborers in Fall River.
