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Join local independent author and historian J.N. Cheney for an author talk about his first book Women, Immigrants, and the Working-Class Battle in Little Falls, New York: The Textile Strike of 1912-1913.
The Little Falls Textile Strike of 1912-1913 was a pivotal but long-neglected event in American labor history. This book offers a groundbreaking corrective, as it chronicles the dramatic struggle of immigrant women against powerful mill owners, brutal police repression, and a hostile press as they fought for their dignity and survival. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study resurrects a forgotten history and provides a pioneering theoretical framework for understanding class struggle, nativism, and labor organizing in the Progressive Era, restoring a vital local struggle to its national importance.
Q&A session to follow the author talk.
Books will be available for sale and signing.
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