Ethnic Working Class Protest : The Textile Strike of 1922 in Rhode Island

Jaffee, Susan E.

Dissertation on ethnicity and working-class life in early-twentieth-century Rhode Island. Particular emphasis on the causes and effects of a violent 1922 strike at B.B. and R. Knight Mills on the banks of the Pawtuxet River in Natick, Rhode Island. The strike involved an extended mass protest, the intervention of the state militia, and the eventually successful pleading of a local Catholic priest.

Providence, Rhode Island

1974

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Thesis/Dissertation

1920s; Rhode Island

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