A new order of things : how the textile industry transformed New England /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, [2002] |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: An overview of the textile trade
- Extend the mills: spinning cotton in New England
- The "Masheen": the wool carding machine comes to New England
- Made in families: weaving at home with new tools
- Diaper, tow, and crash: manufacturing linen in New England
- Great expectations: cotton mill fever creates textile towns
- The Waltham power loom: investing in power weaving
- "The best wheel in the world": waterpower in New England
- Genius, wealth, and industry: Lowell astonishes the world
- Calico, blocks, and rollers: printing technology and the new fashion
- "Simply preposterous": New England's woolen mills catch up
- Jenny, Jack, and Billy: the woolen machinery family
- The beginnings of social change: the New England mill workers
- "Acres of girlhood": a workforce of women
- Rising tide of discontent: the struggle for "freedom"
- "Gifted in mind, body and estate": New England builds an immigrant workforce
- The Lawrence experience: the fall and reprise of a New England textile city
- Smokestacks and train tracks: steam engines promote textile manufacture
- Speeders, pickers, and mules: New England's new machinery.