Cover of Lowell Offering

Book 1980

Lowell Offering

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Publisher
HarperCollins (paper)
Published
1980
  • Women
  • Employment
  • History
  • Textile workers
  • American prose literature
  • Women authors
  • Social life and customs

Thinly disguised reportage, "Letters from Susan" and "Tales of Factory Life" illustrate the ways in which the boardinghouse served as a "mediating structure" in the transformation of farm girl into factory operative.