Holyoke, Massachusetts : A Case History of the Industrial Revolution in America

Green, Constance McLaughlin

A study of labor and industry in Holyoke, Massachusetts, beginning with the city's agrarian traditions, and establishing later an emphasis on the city's industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. Published during the Great Depression, covers also the first three decades of the twentieth century and the saddening economic decline that led to Holyoke's engagement with businesses on the state and federal levels. A case study in New England mill-town economic transition.

1939 (1968)

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1850-1939; Holyoke, Massachusetts