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Amoskeag : Life and Work in an American Factory-City, Paperback / softback Book

Amoskeag : Life and Work in an American Factory-City Paperback / softback

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First published in 1978, this classic book, through vivid oral histories and historic photographs, documents the social and cultural impact of the industry during America's rise as a manufacturing power.

For nearly a century, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was chief architect of the social, ethnic, and economic existence of Manchester, New Hampshire.

In the early 1900s, it was the largest textile mill in the world, employing 17,000; its red brick facade stretched for nearly a mile along the Merrimack River and its payroll drew immigrants by the thousands.

In their own words, laborers, foremen, managers, and town residents paint a detailed portrait of the mill's nearly feudal dominance of every aspect of their lives and offer their response to this existence, with fierce pride and an unshakable sense of community.

When competition, labor unrest, and obsolescence caught up with the mill in 1936, a weaver recalls, ""the mills went out and the world stopped for everybody.

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