Women, immigrants, and the working-class battle in Little Falls, New York : the textile strike of 1912-1913 /
This study resurrects the forgotten history of the Little Falls Textile Strike of 1912-1913, a pivotal but long-neglected struggle of the Progressive Era. The book chronicles the fight of immigrant women workers from Poland, Italy, and Slovakia against powerful mill owners in New York's Mohawk...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Algora Publishing,
[2025]
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| Summary: | This study resurrects the forgotten history of the Little Falls Textile Strike of 1912-1913, a pivotal but long-neglected struggle of the Progressive Era. The book chronicles the fight of immigrant women workers from Poland, Italy, and Slovakia against powerful mill owners in New York's Mohawk Valley. Based on extensive archival research, this work details the horrific conditions the women endured - dangerous, unsanitary factories, rampant tuberculosis, and dilapidated housing - which were courageously exposed by social reformer M. Helen Schloss. When the workers organized with Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), they faced a brutal campaign of repression, including police violence, suppression of free speech by local authorities, and hostile media coverage intended to demonize them. This book restores a vital local event to its national importance, providing a pioneering framework for understanding class struggle, nativism, and labor organizing in early 20th-century America. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 9781628945881 9781628945874 1628945877 9781628945898 1628945885 1628945893 |