On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands of parading strikers from fifty-one nations, unforgettable acts of cruelty, and even a protracted murder trial that tested the boundaries of free speech. A rousing look at a seminal and overlooked chapter of the past, Bread and Roses is indispensable reading.
Alone and far from home, she agrees to protect him . . . even though she suspects that he is hiding some terrible secret. From a beloved, award-winning author, here is a moving story based on real events surrounding an infamous 1912 strike.
Ann urged me to become more historical in my approach to literature and culture, and I have tried, I hope with some minimal success, to apply a methodology ... In A. Curthoys & J. Damousi (Eds.), What did you do in the cold war, Daddy?:
Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Poetry by Women Writers
... national tidal shift in public opinion about the war , the internal Tet offensive of the doves , the conversion of Roswell Gilpatric , Averell Harriman , half of Wall Street , Fred Harris , Tom Seaver , and Melvin Laird's son .
"Blood is everywhere in our society: on nightly T.V., in daily newspaper photos, in religious imagery. Yet menstrual blood is never mentioned and almost never seen, except privately by women....
Roland D. Sawyer, a Protestant minister and eventual Massachusetts state legislator. The son of a shoemaker and a teacher, Sawyer dropped out of school at 16 to learn the craft of shoemaking from his dad. After four years, his attention ...
Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses is Paul Laverty's third collaboration with director, Ken Loach. In this screenplay Laverty explores the most marginalized of LA communities taking on their corporate bosses against all...
Focuses on the work environment in this early age of mass production and mechanization, and shows how abusive conditions often led to labor unrest.
Examines the conditions that led to the 1912 workers' strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts between textile laborers and the factory owners.