The Spindle City : Labor, Politics, and Religion in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1905

Silvia, Philip Thomas, Jr.

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.

New York, New York

1973

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Thesis/Dissertation

1870-1905; Fall River, Massachusetts

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