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Picking Up the Linen Threads
Weavers of revolution
Lowell Offering
The archive of loss
A memoir of Robert Blincoe
Popular disturbances and public order in Regency England
Made on Earth
Turn homeward, Hannalee
Sisters and strangers
The Kanegafuchi Spinning Company Limited
Union power in the Nigerian textile industry
A New England girlhood
The Daring Ladies of Lowell
Life in a New England mill town
The voice of southern labor
The bobbin girl
Lyddie
Through the mill
Race, class, and community in Southern labor history
Amoskeag
Mistress of Luke's Folly
Paternalism and protest
Worker city, company town
Empire of cotton
The Luddites
Southern struggles
Master of Liversedge
Good girl work
The handloom weavers
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!
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