The Belles of New England
The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove
Moran, William
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BOOK SUMMARY
The Belles of New England is a brilliant work of social history that revolves around the rise and fall of the 19th Century textile mills and the famous and finest families who owned them.
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AUTHOR BIO
William Moran was a writer, editor, and producer at CBS News for twenty-five years. From 1974 to 1977 he was principal writer for The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. He was producer on the program for two years before joining CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt, where he served as producer and senior producer for sixteen years. His work at CBS News brought him awards from the Writers Guild of America and an Emmy. Prior to joining CBS News, Moran was a reporter for the Associated Press, covering events in New England, New York, and Washington. He was also a producer and writer at Vermont Public Television. While in Vermont, he was a stringer correspondent for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time magazine. Moran is a graduate of Boston University, where he majored in journalism. He is a native of Portland, Maine, and now resides in Scarborough, Maine and Sarasota, Florida.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments1. A Place in the UniverseThe ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lowell brings large-scale textile manufacturing to New England. Generations of native-born Americans and immigrants find jobs in the mills.2. Glory of the NationFrom the rocky farmland and tranquil villages of New England, women migrate to the mill towns to take their place in the history of the American labor movement.3. The Lords of the LoomBusiness leaders in Boston expand the textile industry, accumulate great wealth, and ignite a fierce debate over the morality of using Southern slaves to provide the cotton that feeds the mills.4. From Across the Irish SeaIrish laborers build the mills, the Irish famine victims of the mid-nineteenth century replace the Yankee women at the looms.5. Voyagers SouthThe ethnic character of New England is changed forever as the French Canadians of Quebec cross the border to seek opportunity in America.6. Wretched RefusePoles, Italians, Russians, Jews, and many others weary of Europe's nineteenth-century wars and poverty join the workforce in the New England mills.7. Fighting for RosesImmigrant women lead the great 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the women win.8. Last BellsThe shift of textile manufacturing to the South destroys the industry in New England.NotesBibliographyIndex
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ISBN: 0312326009
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312326005
Dewey Decimal: 973
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 120
Paper Weight (lb): 0.45
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