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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Loom and spindle: or, life among the early mill girls; with a sketch of "The Lowell Offering" and some of its contributors

Loom and spindle: or, life among the early mill girls; with a sketch of "The Lowell Offering" and some of its contributors

H. Robinson, Harriet

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ISBN10: 935403134X
ISBN13: 9789354031342
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 25 2020
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before the factory whistle, there was a girl with a pen. Harriet H. Robinson writes from inside the Lowell Massachusetts mills, where childhood, wages, and ambition were measured in threads. It feels startlingly modern today. A mill town rarely sounds so human. Loom and Spindle is a primary source autobiography of the Lowell mill girls, told with the clarity of lived experience and the quiet confidence of someone who watched a new America being made. Her memories follow the rise of the Lowell Massachusetts mills and the hard-won independence of young earners: the discipline of time clocks, the pride of pay packets, and the hunger for learning that flourished after shifts. Robinson evokes textile factory life in antebellum New England, and the social world around it, without sermonising. Alongside her memoir runs a vivid sketch of the Lowell Offering magazine and some of its contributors, showing how factory girl literature moved from boardinghouse circles into print and debate. For readers of American social history, it is both intimate narrative and labour history research source; for classrooms, it fits naturally as a womens studies course text that keeps argument grounded in reality. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this unabridged memoir edition preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, and a cornerstone text for anyone building a library of nineteenth-century women workers history in print that still speaks to the present moment.

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