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Consisting of three parts, this book contains eleven essays by various authors on the aspects of labor history in Massachusetts spanning from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. These essays are by the following various authors: Lisa B. Lubow, Marjorie Ruzich Abel, Timothy C. Coogan, Clarisse A. Poirier, Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Robert E. Weir, Mary H. Blewett, Jill Lepore, Bruce Cohen, William Hartford, Jim Bollen, Jim Green, and Mark Erlich.
The collection of these essays is a result of the "Symposium on the History of Labor in Massachusetts" that was presented by the Institue for Massachusetts Studies in partnership with the Labor Relations and Research Center of the University of Massachusetts on April 15, 1989, at Westfield State College. Topics cover the transformation of labor, industrialization, the role of women, alternatives to the Slater System and the Waltham System, factory health and safety conditions, unionism, union leadership, the decline of labor in the twentieth century, deindustrialization, and the role of labor in politics.
Clarisse A. Poirier's essay is titled, "Aftermath of a Disaster: The Collapse of the Pemberton Mill".