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.