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American Management and British Labor: Lancashire Immigrant Spinners in Industrial New England

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Isaac Cohen
Isaac Cohen
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San Jose State University
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A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives sent in 1881 a letter to the state Bureau of Statistics of Labor asking: “Why is it that the working people in Fall River are in constant turmoil when at Lowell and Lawrence they are quiet?” Subsequently the bureau conducted a massive inquiry (Massachusetts 1882: 195–415). It concluded that the main cause of the labor troubles in Fall River during the 1870s was the recent influx of British immigrant cotton workers who brought with them their Old Country tradition of labor militancy.

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The Management in the Industrial Workplace
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , October 1985 , pp. 608 - 650
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1985

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