Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Knitters of Needham
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- Chaim M Rosenberg
- Arcadia Publishing (SC)
- Paperback
- 9780738591094
- 9.1 X 6.5 X 0.4 inches
- 0.66 pounds
- History > United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
gloves, underwear, and jackets, using hand- and foot-operated frame machines they brought from England. The more enterprising of them, like William Carter, John Moseley, and Joseph Thorpe, built large mills using steam-powered machinery. The knitters carried the quiet farming town of Needham into the industrial age, attracting hundreds of immigrants to work in their mills. With a strong sense of civic responsibility, the knitters helped build schools, churches, town libraries, parks, and even a cricket field. Early in the 20th century, faced with stiff competition from abroad, the knitters of Needham followed the general trend of the textile industry by consolidating and moving production to the South.
Author Bio
Practicing as a psychiatrist in and around Boston Chaim M. Rosenberg became interested in the abandoned nineteenth-century textile and shoe mills, the people who built them and the people who worked in them. He decided to switch from medicine to history. Among his books are The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell; 1775-1817; Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age: America at the Fair, Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and Yankee Colonies Across America.
His new book Losing America, Conquering India was published September 2017.
Source: Journal of the American Revolution
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