Spoiled Silk: The Red Mayor and the Great Paterson Textile Strike by George William William Shea, George Shea, George William Shea, George William Shea

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Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife, Katherine, who started a new life in the American industrial city of Paterson, New Jersey. Committed to a socialist dream, they struggled to improve the lot of their fellow immigrants and, at the same time, to raise a family in the midst of the turbulence surrounding them. Their efforts contributed to the long-lived struggle to improve working conditions in American mills, but their dream of a socialist America was never to be realized.

Product Details

• ISBN: 0823221342
  
• ISBN-13: 9780823221349
• Format: Paperback, 205pp
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Pub. Date: January 2001
• Edition Description: 1 ED

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