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| Genre/Form: | Sources Interviews |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Last generation. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1990 (OCoLC)654233617 |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary H Blewett |
| ISBN: | 0870237128 : 9780870237126 0870237136 : 9780870237133 |
| OCLC Number: | 20853146 |
| Description: | xxii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | I learned right away / Valentine Chartrand -- Pinching, nicking, and tucking to make both ends meet / Grace Burk -- It wasn't difficult to learn but you didn't get paid / Martha Doherty -- My father just didn't bother too much with me / Blanche Graham -- You had to be on your toes, all the time / Lucie Cordeau -- I knew my job and I knew my place / Narcissa Fantini Hodges -- I never had a job that I sat down / Mabel Delehanty Mangan -- We had to take what come / Diane Ouellette -- I went there just to see what it's like / Dori Nelson -- On drawing-in, you have to be dedicated / Leona Bacon Pray -- The boys used to get away with murder! / Emma Skehan -- So the help got cocky, we all got cocky / Yvonne Hoar -- They used to say, if you married a mender, you were rich / Evelyn Winters -- I'm not an old Greek, I don't eat bread and oil / Jean Rouses. That's what they used to call them : mill rats / Harry Dickenson -- You had to go to work early and get some money / Charles Costello -- I started from the bottom like everybody else / Albert Parent -- Like we say a big shot in the mill / John Falante -- I learned it myself as I went along / Albert Cote -- Rigging, that's the heavy work / Henry Pestana -- We never thought the mills would close / Arthur Morrissette -- Just walking up and down, trying to keep those looms going all day long is a job / Joseph Golas -- They used to call them efficiency men, and that was a bad name / James Simpson -- We all worked in the mill, and all in the same place / Raymond Gaillardetz -- How would you like to make five cents an hour more? / Sidney Muskovitz -- I was young and strong and fast and earned twenty-five cents an hour / Henry Paradis. Never screamed before; never have since / Nicholas Georgoulis -- I can take it; I can stand the grind / Del Chouinard -- I won the respect of all my mill people / Fred Burtt -- Unions were few and far between / James Ellis -- There wasn't an inch of his body that wasn't black and blue / HubertLaFleur -- They never saw the sun / Cornelia Chiklis -- I'd think of my mother in those wretched mills / Roland Bacon -- They were very, very hard on people in those days / Mary Rouses Karafelis. |
| Responsibility: | [edited by] Mary H. Blewett. |
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Contains primary source material.
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