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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Most They Ever Had	Rick Bragg	The story of the mill people of Jacksonville, Alabama.In spring 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Now they stood looking down, b…	OL14956860W
Life in a New England mill town	Sally Senzell Isaacs	An overview of life in a nineteenth-century town in which most people worked in the textile mill, including their housing, food, clothing, schools, and everyday activities.	OL15052695W
Bread and roses, too	Katherine Paterson	Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.	OL15835026W
The Daring Ladies of Lowell	Kate Alcott	Determined to forge her own destiny, Alice Barrow joins the legions of spirited young women better known as the Mill Girls. From dawn until dusk, these ladies work the looms, but the thrill of indepe…	OL17914729W
Social and labour practices of multinational enterprises in the textiles, clothing, and footwear in…	International Labour Office	xii, 184 p. ; 24 cm	OL19188022W
The last ballad	Wiley Cash	"The eagerly awaited next novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling A Land More Kind Than Home about a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together in the years before th…	OL19716690W
Operarios fabriles en el Valle de México (1864-1884)	Mario A. Trujillo Bolio	"First major study to examine not only the nature of the working class in the Valley of Mexico, but also how workers lived. Concentrates on their organizations and also provides insights on popular …	OL2071657W
Workers of closed textile mills	B. B. Patel	With reference to Ahmedabad.	OL3885552W
Turn homeward, Hannalee	Patricia Beatty	Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate in Indiana along with other Georgia mill workers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.	OL4090653W
My World Is Gone	George G. Suggs	"Baseball, religion, work, death, and the company store - these figured eminently in the lives of Southern cotton mill workers and their families during the early decades of the twentieth century. In…	OL4126025W
Up before daybreak	Deborah Hopkinson	In this stunning nonfiction volume, award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson weaves the stories of slaves, sharecroppers, and mill workers into a tapestry illuminating the history of cotton in America.…	OL42621W
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!	John Malam	The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disea…	OL457026W
The Luddites: machine-breakers of the early nineteenth century	Liversidge, Douglas	Discusses the causes, events, and aftermath of the machine-wrecking campaign carried on by early nineteenth-century English workers who felt the machines were destroying their jobs.	OL6426050W
Linthead stomp	Patrick Huber	Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bu…	OL7091644W