Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 Bibliography

Monographs non-fiction

Baxandall, Rosalyn.

Words on Fire: The life and writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Bedford, Henry F.

Socialism and the workers in Massachusetts, 1886-1912  Amherst, MA U. of Mass. Press, 1966

Cahn, William.

Pictorial History of American Labor: The Contributions of the Working Man and Woman to America’s Growth, from Colonial Times to the Present.  NY: Crow Publishers.

Mill town: a dramatic, pictorial narrative of the century-old fight to unionize an industrial town ... New York Cameron & Kahn 1954.

Cameron, Ardis.

Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, MA, 1860-1912. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

The Chronicles of America series  Allen Johnson, editor, Gerhard R. Lomer, Charles W. Jefferys, assistant editors v.40 -

Armies of labor

Citizens’ Association,

 Lawrence as it really is: Not as syndicalists, anarchists, socialists, suffragists pseudo philanthropists & muckraking yellow journalists have painted it.  Lawrence, MA:

A Reign of Terror in an American City: Some of the Ways in Which Lawrence was held in Subjection by a Gang of Out of Town Agitators. Lawrence, MA 1912.

What City after Lawrence! In what other American community will the combination that lied about Lawrence encamp and pursue the same tactics? Lawrence MA, 1912.

Cole, Donald.

Immigrant City. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1963, 1980.

Dengler, Eartha.

Lawrence, Massachusetts: The Strike of 1912: We want bread and roses too. Lawrence, MA: Immigrant City Archives & Lawrence Heritage State Park, nd

Dubofsky, Melvyn.

We shall be all: A history of the Industrial Workers of the World. NY: NY Times Book Co., 1969.

Big Bill Haywood. NY: St Martin’s Press, 1987.

Ebert, Justus. 

The trial of new society  Cleveland, Ohio IWW

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley.

The Rebel Girl: An autobiography, my first life (1906-1926) NY: International Publishers, 1955, 1973.

Garrison, Dee.

Mary Heaton Vorse: The life of an American Insurgent. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989.

Hamm, Alice.

Exploring the dangerous trades; the autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D. Boston, 1943.

Haywood, William

Bill Haywood’s Book: The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. NY, 1929.Holland, Ruth Mill Child: The story of child labor in America.NY: Crowell Collier Press, 1970.

Kornbluh, Joyce L., ed.     

Rebel Voice: An IWW Anthology. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1964.

Laudani, Philip A.             

Essays in time 2002.                                     

Lawrence, Massachusetts: a story of protest, patriotism, thanksgiving and truth. Lawrence, Mass.: Eagle Tribune Print, [1912]                                        

Life and Times in Immigrant City: Memories of the textile town.  A booklet commemorating the second Massachusetts History Workshop. Merrimack Valley  Textile Museum. Amalgamated Clothes and Textile Workers Union, with a grant from MA Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy.Lawrence, MA, October 12, 1980.

Moran, Bill.                      

The belles of New England: the women of the textile mills and the families whose wealth they wove New York 2002.

Neill, Charles P., U.S. Commissioner of Labor.

Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912, 62nd Congress, Second Session, Senate Document #870, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

Roddy, Edward G.,     

Mills, Mansions, and Mergers: The Life of William Madison Wood.  North Andover, MA: Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1982.

Salvatore, Nicholas.    

Eugene V. Debs.  Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1982.

Sanger, Margaret.      

An Autobiography. NY: W.W. Norton, 1938.

Seeger, Pete & Bob Reiser. 

Carry it On: The story of America’s Working People in Song and Picture. Bethlehem, PA: A Sing Out Publication, 1985, 1991.     

Todd, Robert & Frank Sanborn.

The Report of the Lawrence Survey… Andover, MA: Andover Press, The White Fund. 1911.

United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 1st.

The busy bee: Strike special. 1912.

Watson, Bruce. 

Bread and roses: mills, migrants, and the struggle for the American dream New York, Viking, 2005.

Werstein, Irving.

Pie in the Sky: The Wobblies and their times, NY: Delacorte Press, 1969.

Yellen, Samuel.

American Labor Struggles. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. [1936]

Zwick, Jim

Bread and roses: the lost histories of a slogan and a poem 2002

Articles

Manuscripts and theses

Armitage, Mary.         

Problems with mythmaking: Why Lawrence’s strike of 1912 should not be called the “Bread and Roses Strike”.  Ms. Nd.

Arnold, Dexter Philip

A row of bricks": worker activism in the Merrimack Valley textile industry, 1912-1922 Ph.D. thesis U. of Wisconsin 1985

Benanti, Carl Joseph. 

Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: Contributions of the Italian Community. History Thesis, Merrimack College, Feb. 16, 1988

Caggiano, Joyce Christine

"No God, no master" the strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts 1912  Union Institute 2000

Davidson, Mark B. 

The Lawrence textile strike and the Boston elevated strike: the AFL and the IWW in Massachusetts during the progressive era Senior Honors thesis Brandeis University 1986

Greer, Cora Coggins

Economic class struggle in a one industry town: the Lawrence textile strike of 1912 Honor’s Thesis Smith College 1958

Hulburd, Lloyd Fuller,

Lawrence, Massachusetts: the textile strike of 1912 University of Vermont 1979

Kamien, Evan 

The mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts 2003.

Kiamie, Fred.

Early Industrial relations on Lawrence, Massachusetts. Thesis, Boston University, 1951.

Kingston, Richard J.

IWW in the east Masters thesis Central Connecticut State College 1982

Ouellete, Emile M.     

A history of the Lawrence Strike of 1912. Thesis, St. John’s University, 1951.

Pierce, Edward F., Jr.

Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 and the Role of the Industrial Workers of the World. Thesis, South Connecticut State University.

Seddon, Michael

Provocation: Why the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 happened Honors these U. Mass. 1972.

Shoemaker, Caroline P.

Families through crisis: The Lawrence Textile Workers’ strike of 1912. Senior essay, Branford College [Yale University] 1977.

Sternberg, Linda

Women workers and the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts  Master’s thesis Hampshire College 1975

Stroh, Paul

The Catholic clergy and American labor disputes 1900-1937  Ph.D thesis Catholic University of America 1939.

Turgeon, Susan Foley Charges of Unamericanism in the Lawrence textile strike of 1912 Master’s thesis Hofstra University 1975 (Bibliography and 1st 8 pages available at the LPL)

Fiction

Churchill, Winston.     The Dwelling Place of Light.  NY: Macmillan, 1917, 1927.

Coleman, Lynne A.     Fighting for bread and roses: a novel Grand Rapids, MI Kregel Publications,2005.

Doctorow, E. L.          Ragtime. (Chapter 16), NY: Random House, 1974.

Farnum, Mabel.           Cry of the Streets. Boston : Angel Guardian Press, 1913.

Gambino, Richard,       Bread and Roses.  NY: Seaview Books, 1981.

Paterson, Katherine     Bread and roses, too NY 2005

Ziavras, Charles E.       Titanic interlude: a novel. Lowell, Mass.: Ithaca Press, 1982.

 Miscellaneous

Collective Voices: The Massachusetts Labor Movement and the Textile Strike of 1912. Secondary Social Studies Curriculum Guide with 20-minutes video, MA AFL/CIO, Office of the MA Secretary of State & the Commonwealth of Museum, 1990.

God and country parade, Lawrence, Mass., poster, 1912

History detectives: episode 403 (vhs and DVD) 2006.

Jackson, Miles. Strike! The Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike. 1 audio cassette, Random House, [1977]

Lawrence, Mass., panorama photographs 1912 (Militias)

Lawrence, Mass., textile strike of 1912 broadsides

Lawrence, Mass., textile strike of 1912, scrapbooks

Litterio, Lisa National History Day competition 2000 (ms and video)

Newspaper collection

Strike! LP 1977

Strike poetry 1912