Resources: A collection of links and useful labor history resources and materials on the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike.

Voice of Industry, a worker-run newspaper, began publishing in 1845. Founded at the height of the Industrial Revolution, and quickly adopted by young American working women, the Voice soon established itself in the “City of Spindles,” Lowell, Massachusetts. www.industrialrevolution.org Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, MA, that Changed Labor History, Digital Public Library of America http://dp.la/exhibitions/exhibits/show/breadandroses Lawrence History Center. www.lawrencehistorycenter.org Bread and Roses Heritage Committee. www.breadandrosesheritage.org Lawrence Heritage State Park. www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/northeast/lwhp.htm The Path~El Sendro: Tour Lawrence. Interactive on-line walking tour of the city’s history. The images, sounds and dialog will surely captivate you! www.lawrencehistorycenter.org/node/423 Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. http://rememberthetrianglefire.org/ Zinn Education Project: Teach a People’s History http://zinnedproject.org/posts/tag/lawrence United States Congress: Senate. Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Mass. in 1912, 62nd Congress, 2nd sess., Doc. 870. http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924054583020#page/n5/mode/2up United States Congress: House. Committee on Rules. The Strike at Lawrence, Mass.: Hearings before the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives on House Resolutions 409 and 433. 62nd Cong., 2nd sess., March 2 – 7, 1912. White Fund, The Report of the Lawrence Survey, 1912. http://www.archive.org/stream/reportlawrences01massgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Lorin Deland, The Lawrence Strike: A Study, The Atlantic, May 1912. http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/12may/deland.htm

Strike History and Labor History-related materials: Dexter Arnold, “A Row of Bricks: Worker Activism in the Merrimack Valley Textile Industry, 1912 – 1922.” PhD diss., University of Wisconsin Madison, 1985. Dexter Arnold, “Ethnic Diversity and Labor Unity: Reflections on the Lowell Textile Strike of 1912,” Labor’s Heritage, Fall 1996. Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Kids on Strike. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Henry Bedford, Socialism and the Workers in Massachusetts 1886 – 1912. Amherst:

University of Massachusetts Press, 1966. Ardis Cameron, Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912, University of Illinois, 1995. William Cahn, Lawrence 1912: The Bread & Roses Strike. New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1977. (Terrific collection of photographs and strike-related documents.) Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts 1845-1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Philip Dray, There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America. New York: Doubleday, 2010. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Rebel Girl. New York: International Publishers, 1955. Kenneth Fones-Wolf and Martin Kaufman, edts., Labor in Massachusetts: Selected Essays. Westfield: Institute for Massachusetts Studies, 1990. David Goldberg, A Tale of Three Cities: Labor Organization and Protest in Paterson, Passaic, and Lawrence, 1916-1921. Rutgers University Press, 1989. James Green, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. Anchor, 2007. Tom Juravich, James Green, and William Hartford, Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. Joyce Kornbluh, edt., Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology. Charles Kerr, 1998. David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplce, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865 – 1925. Cambridge University Press, 1987. Priscilla Murolo and A. B. Chitty, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States. The New Press, 2001. Alvin Oickle, Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton. Charleston: The History Press, 2008. Katherine Paterson, Bread and Roses, Too. Houghton-Mifflin, 2006. Moving young adult historical-fiction novel based on a major strike in Lawrence, Mass. in 1912. Patrick Renshaw, The Wobblies: The Story of Syndicalism in the United States. New York: Anchor Books, 1968. Edward Roddy, Mills, Mansions, and Mergers: The Life of William M. Wood. North Andover: Merrimack Valley Textile History Museum, 1982. Bruce Watson, Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. New York: Penguin Books, 2005. Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States. Revised Edition. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Jim Zwick, “Behind the Song: Bread and Roses,” Sing Out! Winter, 2003.