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Genre/Form: | History Illustrated works |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rivard, Paul E. New order of things. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, ©2002 (OCoLC)655008934 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul E Rivard |
ISBN: | 1584652837 9781584652830 1584652187 9781584652182 |
OCLC Number: | 48958482 |
Description: | xii, 156 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: An overview of the textile trade -- Extend the mills: spinning cotton in New England -- The "Masheen": the wool carding machine comes to New England -- Made in families: weaving at home with new tools -- Diaper, tow, and crash: manufacturing linen in New England -- Great expectations: cotton mill fever creates textile towns -- The Waltham power loom: investing in power weaving -- "The best wheel in the world": waterpower in New England -- Genius, wealth, and industry: Lowell astonishes the world -- Calico, blocks, and rollers: printing technology and the new fashion -- "Simply preposterous": New England's woolen mills catch up -- Jenny, Jack, and Billy: the woolen machinery family -- The beginnings of social change: the New England mill workers -- "Acres of girlhood": a workforce of women -- Rising tide of discontent: the struggle for "freedom" -- "Gifted in mind, body and estate": New England builds an immigrant workforce -- The Lawrence experience: the fall and reprise of a New England textile city -- Smokestacks and train tracks: steam engines promote textile manufacture -- Speeders, pickers, and mules: New England's new machinery. |
Other Titles: | How the textile industry transformed New England |
Responsibility: | Paul E. Rivard. |
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Abstract:
"Based on oral histories and archival documents, A New Order of Things offers a vast, accessible overview of the rise and collapse of an industry that forced New England into the modern age. Lavishly illustrated with photographs drawn from museum archives and private collections, this volume also includes new photographs of artifacts displayed at historic sites across New England. Paul E. Rivard brings to life the stories of the people who used these artifacts. He constructs vibrant narratives of textile workers like the "mill girls" of 1840s Lowell and Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the Irish and French Canadian immigrants who made up the overwhelming majority of the workforce in New England mills by the 1860s. Rivard discusses the importance of water sources to patterns of development, the mechanics of carding wool and spinning cotton, the creation of company-run towns, industrial work and family relations, and union organizing within the industry. In A New Order of Things, the history of industry and technology tells the stories of the men and women who became the first modern New Englanders."--Jacket.
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