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| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introduction: An Overview of the Textile Trade | 1 |
| 2 | Extend the Mills: Spinning Cotton in New England | 9 |
| 3 | The "Masheen": The Wool Carding Machine Comes to New England | 15 |
| 4 | Made in Families: Weaving at Home with New Tools | 19 |
| 5 | Diaper, Tow, and Crash: Manufacturing Linen in New England | 27 |
| 6 | Great Expectations: Cotton Mill Fever Creates Textile Towns | 34 |
| 7 | The Waltham Power Loom: Investing in Power Weaving | 44 |
| 8 | "The Best Wheel in the World": Waterpower in New England | 51 |
| 9 | Genius, Wealth, and Industry: Lowell Astonishes the World | 59 |
| 10 | Calico, Blocks, and Rollers: Printing Technology and the New Fashion | 66 |
| 11 | "Simply Preposterous": New England's Woolen Mills Catch Up | 79 |
| 12 | Jenny, Jack, and Billy: The Woolen Machinery Family | 89 |
| 13 | The Beginnings of Social Change: The New England Mill Workers | 95 |
| 14 | "Acres of Girlhood": A Workforce of Women | 102 |
| 15 | Rising Tide of Discontent: The Struggle for "Freedom" | 110 |
| 16 | "Gifted in Mind, Body and Estate": New England Builds an Immigrant Workplace | 117 |
| 17 | The Lawrence Experience: The Fall and Reprise of a New England Textile City | 121 |
| 18 | Smokestacks and Train Tracks: Steam Engines Promote Textile Manufacture | 126 |
| 19 | Speeders, Pickers, and Mules: New England's New Machinery | 134 |
| Notes | 145 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 149 | |
| Index | 151 |
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JOACHIM MKENDA
reviewed A New Order of Things: How the Textile Industry Transformed New England on December 09, 2015
A New Order of Things: How the Textile Industry Transformed New England
Brief, informative, its strength lies in its wealth of photos. Ends a little abruptly, and does not discuss the fall of the textile industry in New England, or why textile production moved south.
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