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  Constant Turmoil : The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England

  Book-length social history exploring the development of industry, industrial life, and the power of the politics surrounding them in southeastern New England - especially Fall River, Massachusetts - in the nineteenth century. Discussions of gender in the contexts of textile mill work and labor unionism; immigrant workforces, class consciousness, and inter-worker strife. Includes a critical assessment of primary sources consulted, as well as an appendix with demographic and economic data tables referred to in the text.

  Tags Business and Economics, Connecticut, Coventry RI, English Americans, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, Meriden CT, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Norwalk CT, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Social History
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  A New Order of Things : How the Textile Industry Transformed New England

  General history of the textile industry and its workers in the towns and cities of New England. From early domestic and small-scale manufacturing in the 17th and 18th centuries, to weaving industries of the early 19th, to the massive riverside brick mill structures and labor forces that persisted into the later 20th century. Contains scholarship, oral histories, and many illustrations in painting and photograph of industrial-era settings, workers, and their manufacturing equipment. Written by former director of the American Textile History Museum and the Maine State Museum.

  Tags Alna ME, Andover MA, Androscoggin River Valley, Augusta ME, Berlin NH, Billerica MA, Blackstone River Valley, Braintree MA, Brunswick ME, Business and Economics, Chelmsford MA, Clinton MA, Dedham MA, Dover NH, Dracut MA, Dudley MA, Emigration and Immigration, England, Fall River MA, Gardiner ME, Gonic NH, Hallowell ME, Harrisville NH, Holden MA, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Kingston NH, Labor History, Laconia NH, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lincoln RI, Londonderry NH, Lovell ME, Lowell MA, Ludlow MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Middlefield NY, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Newburyport MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Pawtucket RI, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Portsmouth NH, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Rockville CT, Rowley MA, Saco ME, Salem MA, Salem NH, Sanford ME, Slatersville RI, Somersworth NH, South Waterford ME, Springvale ME, St. John River Valley, Taunton MA, Ware MA, Warren RI, Webster MA, Winthrop ME, Worcester MA, Yarmouth ME, York ME
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  Mill Architecture in Fall River : 1865-1880

  The advent of certain southern New England manufactories, and the specific history behind the shapes and builds, the rise and fall, of the granite textile mills of Fall River, Massachusetts. Historical progression of mill development and those who spurred it in the Fall River/Rhode Island area from the early 19th century to the post-Civil War era. How the architectural planning, machinery, and industrial capacities of the Fall River mills in the 19th century owe much to the British industrial designs of that period. The independence of Fall River architects and industrial organizations, and the scope of their achievements. Specific exterior and interior design properties of some Fall River textile mills versus those of other comparable Massachusetts structures, with an emphasis on those built between 1865 and 1880.

  Tags Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, England, Fall River MA, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Art and Architecture, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rehoboth MA, Rhode Island, Somerset MA
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  The Position of Workers in a Textile Community : Fall River in the Early 1880s

  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.

  Tags Alcohol and Drugs, Business and Economics, Emigration and Immigration, English Americans, Fall River MA, Flint Village MA, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, Mechanicsville MA, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Quequechan River Valley
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  Vieux articles et vieux ouvrages : Le Rev. M. Bédard, curé de Fall River (1886) Suite. [no. 1]

  Deuxiième partie d'une piièce biographique sur un prêtre canadien-français aux Etats-Unis. Sa vie comme curé de la paroisse à  Flint Village, Fall River, Massachusetts. Ses préoccupations culturelles au sein de sa paroisse, et les aspects de ses relations avec les paroissiens et les prêtres irlandais-américaine. Certains événements dans la vie des catholiques franco-américaines de Fall River à  la fin du 19ième siiècle.

  Tags Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Flint Village MA, Ireland, Irish Americans, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Providence RI, Québec, Quequechan River Valley, Religion, Rhode Island
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  Vieux articles et vieux ouvrages : Le Rev. M. Bédard, curé de Fall River (1886) Suite. [no. 2]

  Troisiième partie d'une piièce biographique sur un prêtre canadien-français aux Etats-Unis. Les communications avec son évêque, et ses efforts à  développer une paroisse nationale à  Fall River, au Massachusetts. Quelques commentaires sur les efforts de ce prêtre à  la lutte contre la maltraitance des canadiens-français catholiques et les travailleurs de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Sa maladie et sa mort éventuelle. Une réimpression de l'article sur son cérémonies funéraires comme présenté dans le périodique canadien, "Castor." Une transcription de son "testament de feu."

  Tags Acadians, Bowenville MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, East Douglas MA, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Flint Village MA, Ireland, Irish Americans, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Millbury MA, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Providence RI, Québec, Quequechan River Valley, Religion, Rhode Island, Taunton MA, Tiverton RI, Westport MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA
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  The 'Flint Affair' : French-Canadian Struggle for 'Survivance'

  Article on the 1880s Fall River, Massachusetts, dispute between French Canadian immigrant Catholics, Irish American parishioners, and a largely Irish American clergy, commonly known as the "Flint Affair." The prolonged and destructive debate over French Canadian immigrant community preference for a priest of both their heritage and language to service a national parish. The various community crises instigated by both nationalistic parishioners and their resistant bishopric. "Flint village" of the Fall River Flint mills as an example of the communities and parishes borne out of turn-of-the-century emigration to the United States. Ethnic division as a symptom of linguistic barriers in church, disputes concerning the organization of labor, and passions both in favor of and against "la survivance."

  Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Irish Americans, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Religion, Rhode Island, Violence
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  The Spindle City : Labor, Politics, and Religion in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1905

  The place of Fall River, Massachusetts, in the United States' 19th-century industrial boom, its ensuing period of immigration and cultural diversification, and the birth of the American middle class. A massive and in-depth dissertation that pays particular attention to ethnic and class distinctions as treated in the political atmosphere of the 35 year period around the turn of the century.

  Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Quequechan River Valley, Religion, Social History, Taunton River Valley
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  Continuity and Disruption : Working-Class Community in Lynn and Fall River, Massachusetts, 1880-1950

  From a review of by Donald H. Stewart, SUNY Cortland, on the later text based on this dissertation's research: "Cumbler concentrates on two Massachusetts cities - Lynn, a late-nineteenth century shoe manufacturing center, and Fall River, a leading textile producer. Contradicting historians who argue that upward mobility and ethnic competition prevented American coherent class solidarity, he finds much of it in both municipalities."

  Tags Boston MA, Bowenville MA, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lynn MA, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Quequechan River Valley, Social History
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  A New Order of Things : How the Textile Industry Transformed New England

  General history of the textile industry and its workers in the towns and cities of New England. From early domestic and small-scale manufacturing in the 17th and 18th centuries, to weaving industries of the early 19th, to the massive riverside brick mill structures and labor forces that persisted into the later 20th century. Contains scholarship, oral histories, and many illustrations in painting and photograph of industrial-era settings, workers, and their manufacturing equipment. Written by former director of the American Textile History Museum and the Maine State Museum.

  Tags Alna ME, Andover MA, Androscoggin River Valley, Augusta ME, Berlin NH, Billerica MA, Blackstone River Valley, Braintree MA, Brunswick ME, Business and Economics, Chelmsford MA, Clinton MA, Dedham MA, Dover NH, Dracut MA, Dudley MA, Emigration and Immigration, England, Fall River MA, Gardiner ME, Gonic NH, Hallowell ME, Harrisville NH, Holden MA, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Kingston NH, Labor History, Laconia NH, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lincoln RI, Londonderry NH, Lovell ME, Lowell MA, Ludlow MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Middlefield NY, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Newburyport MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Pawtucket RI, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Portsmouth NH, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Rockville CT, Rowley MA, Saco ME, Salem MA, Salem NH, Sanford ME, Slatersville RI, Somersworth NH, South Waterford ME, Springvale ME, St. John River Valley, Taunton MA, Ware MA, Warren RI, Webster MA, Winthrop ME, Worcester MA, Yarmouth ME, York ME
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  Constant Turmoil : The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England

  Book-length social history exploring the development of industry, industrial life, and the power of the politics surrounding them in southeastern New England - especially Fall River, Massachusetts - in the nineteenth century. Discussions of gender in the contexts of textile mill work and labor unionism; immigrant workforces, class consciousness, and inter-worker strife. Includes a critical assessment of primary sources consulted, as well as an appendix with demographic and economic data tables referred to in the text.

  Tags Business and Economics, Connecticut, Coventry RI, English Americans, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, Meriden CT, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Norwalk CT, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Social History