Where Is Our Responsibility?: Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry, 1870-1960
By William Hartford.
Description
Just as the ride of mechanized textile production marked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, its demise signaled the onset of deindustrialization. Once considered an aberration in an otherwise unblemished record of economic progress, the decline of New England's textile industry in the decade following World War II has been mirrored throughout other industries in the nation's heartland. In this book, William F. Hartford examines that process from the perspective of union leaders who sought to save the textile industry while at the same time trying to i...
ISBN(s)
1558490221, 9781558490222
