Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 Bibliography
Monographs non-fiction
Baxandall, Rosalyn.
Words on Fire: The life and writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
Bedford, Henry F.
Socialism and the workers in Massachusetts, 1886-1912 Amherst, MA U. of Mass. Press, 1966
Cahn, William.
1912: The Bread & Roses Strike. NY: Pilgrim Press, 1980 (original title, Mill Town; 1954)
Pictorial History of American Labor: The Contributions of the Working Man and Woman to America’s Growth, from Colonial Times to the Present. NY: Crow Publishers.
Mill town: a dramatic, pictorial narrative of the century-old fight to unionize an industrial town ... New York Cameron & Kahn 1954.
Cameron, Ardis.
Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, MA, 1860-1912. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
The Chronicles of America series Allen Johnson, editor, Gerhard R. Lomer, Charles W. Jefferys, assistant editors v.40 -
Armies of labor
Citizens’ Association,
Lawrence as it really is: Not as syndicalists, anarchists, socialists, suffragists pseudo philanthropists & muckraking yellow journalists have painted it. Lawrence, MA:
A Reign of Terror in an American City: Some of the Ways in Which Lawrence was held in Subjection by a Gang of Out of Town Agitators. Lawrence, MA 1912.
What City after Lawrence! In what other American community will the combination that lied about Lawrence encamp and pursue the same tactics? Lawrence MA, 1912.
Cole, Donald.
Immigrant City. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1963, 1980.
Dengler, Eartha.
Lawrence, Massachusetts: The Strike of 1912: We want bread and roses too. Lawrence, MA: Immigrant City Archives & Lawrence Heritage State Park, nd
Dubofsky, Melvyn.
We shall be all: A history of the Industrial Workers of the World. NY: NY Times Book Co., 1969.
Big Bill Haywood. NY: St Martin’s Press, 1987.
Ebert, Justus.
The trial of new society Cleveland, Ohio IWW
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley.
The Rebel Girl: An autobiography, my first life (1906-1926) NY: International Publishers, 1955, 1973.
Garrison, Dee.
Mary Heaton Vorse: The life of an American Insurgent. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989.
Hamm, Alice.
1 of 6 Exploring the dangerous trades; the autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D. Boston, 1943.
Haywood, William
Bill Haywood’s Book: The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. NY, 1929.Holland, Ruth Mill Child: The story of child labor in America.NY: Crowell Collier Press, 1970.
Kornbluh, Joyce L., ed.
Rebel Voice: An IWW Anthology. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1964.
Laudani, Philip A.
Essays in time 2002.
Lawrence, Massachusetts: a story of protest, patriotism, thanksgiving and truth. Lawrence, Mass.: Eagle Tribune Print, [1912]
Life and Times in Immigrant City: Memories of the textile town. A booklet commemorating the second Massachusetts History Workshop. Merrimack Valley Textile Museum. Amalgamated Clothes and Textile Workers Union, with a grant from MA Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy.Lawrence, MA, October 12, 1980.
Moran, Bill.
The belles of New England: the women of the textile mills and the families whose wealth they wove New York 2002.
Neill, Charles P., U.S. Commissioner of Labor.
Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912, 62nd Congress, Second Session, Senate Document #870, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
Roddy, Edward G.,
Mills, Mansions, and Mergers: The Life of William Madison Wood. North Andover, MA: Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1982.
Salvatore, Nicholas.
Eugene V. Debs. Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1982.
Sanger, Margaret.
An Autobiography. NY: W.W. Norton, 1938.
Seeger, Pete & Bob Reiser.
Carry it On: The story of America’s Working People in Song and Picture. Bethlehem, PA: A Sing Out Publication, 1985, 1991.
Todd, Robert & Frank Sanborn.
The Report of the Lawrence Survey… Andover, MA: Andover Press, The White Fund. 1911.
United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 1st.
The busy bee: Strike special. 1912.
Watson, Bruce.
Bread and roses: mills, migrants, and the struggle for the American dream New York, Viking, 2005.
Werstein, Irving.
Pie in the Sky: The Wobblies and their times, NY: Delacorte Press, 1969.
Yellen, Samuel.
American Labor Struggles. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. [1936]
2 of 6 Zwick, Jim
Bread and roses: the lost histories of a slogan and a poem 2002
Articles
Author Title Journal Date Page #s
Cahn, William Labor in the World War I era A pictorial history of American labor 1972 211-215
Baker, Ray Stannard The revolutionary strike American magazine 19-30
Deland, Lorin F. The Lawrence strike: a study Atlantic Monthly May 1912 694-705
Various Boston Globe 1988 1995
Lawrence as it really is Citizens Association of Lawrence 1912
What city after Lawrence Citizens Association of Lawrence 1912
Reign of terror in an American City Citizens Association of Lawrence 1912
Child, Richard Washburn Who’s violent? The judiciary, the militia, the police, or the labor Collier’s Weekly June 29, 1912 12, 13, 22 leaders? Ettor and Giovanetti are still in jail without trial
Corcoran, Theresa Vida Scudder and the Lawrence Textile Strike Essex Institute Historical Coll. July 1979
Various articles Evening Tribune
Vorse, Mary Heaton Trouble at Lawrence Harpers Weekly March 16,1912 10-11
Marcy, Mary E. The battle for bread at Lawrence International Socialist Review Mar. 1912 522-543
The legacy of the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike Labor Unity ACTW 1980 11-14
Work and wages at Lawrence Literary Digest July 20, 1912 89
Dynamite in the Lawrence Strike Literary Digest Dec. 14, 1912 407
The Lawrence strike children Literary Digest March 9, 1912 471-472
Bread and roses day in Lawrence: 1199 co-sponsors April 27 1199 News April 1980 commemoration of 1912 strike.
Pratt, Walter Merriam The Lawrence Revolution New England Magazine Mar. 1912 7-16
One striker killed; two leaders held New York Times Jan. 31, 1912
Lauck, W. Jett The lesson from Lawrence North American Review 1912 665-672
Fosdick, Harry After the strike-in Lawrence The Outlook June 15, 1912 340-46
The Salem trial of the Lawrence case The Outlook Dec. 7, 1912 739-740
The exoneration of William M Wood The Outlook June 21, 1913 351-352
The IWW pageant The Outlook June 21, 1913 352-353
3 of 6 The aftermath of the strike The Outlook June 1, 1912 237-238
Poet of the IWW The Outlook June 5, 1913 504-506
Werstein, Irving The Lawrence Strike Pie in the sky 1969 67-85 131-134
How the other half lives Practical politics March 9, 1912
Maurer, Carol A more perfect union hall Preservation Sept. 2000 52-55
Congress and the Lawrence strike The Protectionist April 1912 678-682
Chalmers, Thomas Some Problems presented by the Lawrence strike The Protectionist April 1912 679-682
Marvin, T.O. Handling the Lawrence strike The Protectionist April 1912 657-659
Hamilton, Rev. Frederick Lessons from Lawrence The Protectionist April 1912 684-686 W.
Misrepresentation of conditions in Lawrence The Protectionist April 1912 698-699
The public and the wage increases The Protectionist April 1912 688-689
O’Sullivan, Mary K. The labor war at Lawrence The Survey April 6, 1912 72-74
Statements by people who took part The Survey April 6, 1912 75-77
Scudder, Prof. Vida D. For justice sake The Survey April 6, 1912 77-79
Lawrence Textile Workers Lawrence and the Industrial Workers of the World The Survey April 6, 1912 79-80 Strike Comm.
Lawrence demonstration strike The Survey Oct. 12, 1912 53
Special forces The Survey April 6, 1912 1-2
Weyl, Walter E. It is time to know The Survey April 6, 1912 65-67
Woods, Robert A. The breadth and depth of the Lawrence outcome The Survey April 6, 1912 67-68
Ford, James The cooperative Franco-Belge of Lawrence The Survey April 6, 1912 68-70
Carstens, C.C. The children’s exodus from Lawrence The Survey April 6, 1912 70-71
Two hours, reduced wages, and a strike The Survey Jan. 27, 1912 1633
Palmer, Lewis E. A strike for four loaves of bread The Survey Feb. 3, 1912 1690-1697
The causes of the strike The Survey Jan. 27, 1912 1634
Lauck, W. J. The significance of the situation in Lawrence The Survey Feb. 17, 1912 1772-1774
The embargo of the strike children The Survey Mar. 2, 1912 1822
Lovejoy, Owen R. Right of free speech in Lawrence The Survey Mar. 9, 1912 1904-1912
The trend of things The Survey Mar. 9, 1912 1913-1915
4 of 6 Woods, Robert A. The clod stirs The Survey Mar. 16, 1912 1929-1932
Sumner, Mary Brown The broad silk weavers of Paterson The Survey Mar. 16, 1912 1932-1935
Leupp, Constance D. The Lawrence strike hearings The Survey Mar. 23, 1912 1953-1954
Clark, Earle Wages in cotton mills at home an abroad The Survey Mar. 23, 1912 1957-1958
Rowell, Wilbur E. The Lawrence strike The Survey Mar. 23, 1912 1958-1960
The Lawrence settlement The Survey Mar. 23, 1912 1949-1950
Brewster, Edwin T. Free speech in Lawrence The Survey Mar. 30, 1912 2015-2016
Ettor in jail: strike goes on The Survey Feb. 10, 1912 1726-1727
Manuscripts and theses
Armitage, Mary.
Problems with mythmaking: Why Lawrence’s strike of 1912 should not be called the “Bread and Roses Strike”. Ms. Nd.
Arnold, Dexter Philip
A row of bricks": worker activism in the Merrimack Valley textile industry, 1912-1922 Ph.D. thesis U. of Wisconsin 1985
Benanti, Carl Joseph.
Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: Contributions of the Italian Community. History Thesis, Merrimack College, Feb. 16, 1988
Caggiano, Joyce Christine
"No God, no master" the strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts 1912 Union Institute 2000
Davidson, Mark B.
The Lawrence textile strike and the Boston elevated strike: the AFL and the IWW in Massachusetts during the progressive era Senior Honors thesis Brandeis University 1986
Greer, Cora Coggins
Economic class struggle in a one industry town: the Lawrence textile strike of 1912 Honor’s Thesis Smith College 1958
Hulburd, Lloyd Fuller,
Lawrence, Massachusetts: the textile strike of 1912 University of Vermont 1979
Kamien, Evan
The mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts 2003.
Kiamie, Fred.
Early Industrial relations on Lawrence, Massachusetts. Thesis, Boston University, 1951.
Kingston, Richard J.
IWW in the east Masters thesis Central Connecticut State College 1982
Ouellete, Emile M.
A history of the Lawrence Strike of 1912. Thesis, St. John’s University, 1951.
5 of 6 Pierce, Edward F., Jr.
Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 and the Role of the Industrial Workers of the World. Thesis, South Connecticut State University.
Seddon, Michael
Provocation: Why the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 happened Honors these U. Mass. 1972.
Shoemaker, Caroline P.
Families through crisis: The Lawrence Textile Workers’ strike of 1912. Senior essay, Branford College [Yale University] 1977.
Sternberg, Linda
Women workers and the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts Master’s thesis Hampshire College 1975
Stroh, Paul
The Catholic clergy and American labor disputes 1900-1937 Ph.D thesis Catholic University of America 1939.
Turgeon, Susan Foley Charges of Unamericanism in the Lawrence textile strike of 1912 Master’s thesis Hofstra University 1975 (Bibliography and 1st 8 pages available at the LPL)
Fiction
Churchill, Winston. The Dwelling Place of Light. NY: Macmillan, 1917, 1927.
Coleman, Lynne A. Fighting for bread and roses: a novel Grand Rapids, MI Kregel Publications,2005.
Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime. (Chapter 16), NY: Random House, 1974.
Farnum, Mabel. Cry of the Streets. Boston : Angel Guardian Press, 1913.
Gambino, Richard, Bread and Roses. NY: Seaview Books, 1981.
Paterson, Katherine Bread and roses, too NY 2005
Ziavras, Charles E. Titanic interlude: a novel. Lowell, Mass.: Ithaca Press, 1982.
Miscellaneous
Collective Voices: The Massachusetts Labor Movement and the Textile Strike of 1912. Secondary Social Studies Curriculum Guide with 20-minutes video, MA AFL/CIO, Office of the MA Secretary of State & the Commonwealth of Museum, 1990.
God and country parade, Lawrence, Mass., poster, 1912
History detectives: episode 403 (vhs and DVD) 2006.
Jackson, Miles. Strike! The Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike. 1 audio cassette, Random House, [1977]
Lawrence, Mass., panorama photographs 1912 (Militias)
Lawrence, Mass., textile strike of 1912 broadsides
Lawrence, Mass., textile strike of 1912, scrapbooks
Litterio, Lisa National History Day competition 2000 (ms and video)
Newspaper collection
Strike! LP 1977
Strike poetry 1912
Strike handbills
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