Mill Town Research Articles

Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870–1940. By John E. Bodnar. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 213. $11.95

Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870–1940. By John E. Bodnar. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 213. $11.95

Book Review: Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870–1940

Book Review: Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870–1940

Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870–1940. By John Bodnar. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. 213.

Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870–1940. By John Bodnar. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. 213.

From Coal to Forest Products: The Changing resource Base of Nanaimo, B.C.

Many Canadian cities which are now flourishing urban centres had their origins as single-industry communities. British Columbia had many such communities, at all stages of its history; Cariboo and Kootenay mining towns, the logging camps of the Pacific Coast, the sawmill and pulp mill towns of Vancouver Island and the southwest mainland, the salmon canneries and fishing villages dotted along the coast and major rivers.

Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870-1940.

Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870-1940.

Family Leisure in Three Communities

In three communities—a Western university town, a Midwest mill town, and an Eastern new town—associations, role constraints, and satisfactions perceived in an inclusive range of leisure activities ...

The Limits of Militancy: Organizing Paper Workers, 1933-1935

FORT Edwards perches above the Hudson River, forty miles north of Albany, at the juncture of the river and the Champlain branch of the State Barge Canal. Dominated by a large plant of the International Paper Company, even in the 1930s, the village had the appearance of an old and somber mill town. Apart from the gravesite of Revolutionary War martyr Jane McCrea, its only noteworthy feature was that it served as headquarters for the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers, AFL (IBPSPMW). Even so, Edwards was hardly a center of laborite activism. Fort Edwards is a village of less than four thousand, observed the union's president, John P. Burke, and it had no labor movement of any kind.' Yet it was from this isolated community that IBPS PMW responded to the organizational opportunities offered by the New Deal and by frustrated, resentful working people throughout the country. The brotherhood's efforts to tap this grass roots militancy and to build effective unions in the important converted paper industry-a field geographically and organizationally remote from the union's traditional sources of strength-offer important insights into the nature and significance of rank and file unionism in the 1930s. In recent years, the theme of grass roots militancy has attracted the attention of students of the labor movement of the 1930s. Perhaps stimulated by excellent narrative accounts2 and by the social ferment of the

Policy Analysis Modeling for Community Development in Small Cities

Mathematical models are formulated to help planners, elected officials, and citizens in small cities estimate the socioeconomic and fiscal impacts of residential development. The city of Cohoes, NY, serves as a case study. The need for this work is established by reviewing the city's history from its period of growth as a mill town in the nineteenth century to its decline and attempt at reversal in the twentieth century. The community development process is briefly discussed. Two levels of models are developed: static and dynamic. The static models, which describe a new steady state in the city, are less expensive to implement but sacrifice flexibility and accuracy. The dynamic models, programmed in an interactive mode on the computer, are more expensive but provide a wider range of data at greater accuracy. The models contain three sectors, a residential sector which describes the changes in population and housing, a commercial sector which describes the changes in the retail economy, and the public sector which accounts for municipal costs, revenues, and tax rates. The inputs are the type and amount of development proposed. Typical outputs are population by age group, the tax revenues derived from the new development, and changes in the property tax rate. The models are calibrated with data from the city, state, and federal governments. Both static and dynamic model results indicate that new private-sector residential development on vacant city lands returns a net surplus of funds to the municipal government and school district.

Women, work, and protest in the early Lowell mills: “The oppressing hand of avarice would enslave US”

A. Lawrence Lowell, was an impressive accomplishment. In 1820, there had been no city at all—only a dozen family farms along the Merrimack River in East Chelmsford. As Lowell expanded, and became the nation’s largest textile manufacturing center, the experiences of women operatives changed as well. The increasing number of firms in Lowell and in the other mill towns brought the pressure of competition. Overproduction became a problem and the prices of finished cloth decreased. The pre-conditions for the labor unrest in Lowell before 1850 may be found in the study of the daily worklife of its operatives. The mutual dependence among women in early Lowell was rooted in the structure of mill work itself. Living conditions also contributed to the development of community among female operatives. Most women working in the Lowell mills of these years were housed in company boarding houses.

Envy and the Evil Eye Among Slovak‐Americans: An Essay in the Psychological Ontogeny of Belief and Ritual

HOWARD F. STEIN is assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of Psychiatry, Community Mental Health Center, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee. This paper is based on a two-year (January 1970-December 1971) study of threeand four-generation Slovak-American families in mill town communities in western Pennsylvania. The study was supported by a Fellowship in Ethnicity, Racism, and Mental Health of the Maurice Falk Medical Fund. A wider ethnohistoric and psychodynamic contextualization of issues discussed in this paper appears in Stein 1972. Thanks are extended to the several anonymous Associate Editors of ETHOS for their incisive observations and criticism of earlier drafts of this paper. Finally, I would like to thank Professor Stephen C. Cappannari of the Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, for his enthusiasm and encouragement in urging me to carry my analysis of the Evil Eye to its inexorable conclusion. His close reading of the manuscript was equally helpful to me in shedding some dross and in making the argument more tightly knit.

Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Massacre

Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Massacre

Portrait of an American Mill Town: Demographic Response in Mid-Nineteenth Century Warren, Rhode Island

Abstract Utilizing census and vital statistics records, the author demonstrates how low levels of fertility in a nineteenth-century New England mill town are closely interrelated with the economic and social structure of the community. The ready availability of relatively unskilled job opportunities drew large numbers of foreign-born women to this community leading to an imbalance in the sex ratios in the primary marrying ages and a subsequent low percentage of women married. This relative unavailability of marriage partners for the women was further aggravated by a strong unwillingness of men and women to marry outside their own ethnic group. Partly as a result of this unusual marriage pattern, fertility in this nineteenth-century industrial town was well below the level necessary to ensure the long term maintenance of the community. Extremely low levels of marital fertility are also noted for this community and are also attributed to the same economic factors. Thus, a pattern of demographic imbalance is...

Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre

Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre

Norman H. Clark. <italic>Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre</italic>. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1970. Pp. x, 267. $7.95

Norman H. Clark. <italic>Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre</italic>. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1970. Pp. x, 267. $7.95

Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre. By Norman H. Clark. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1970. 267 pp. Index, chapter notes, epilogue, plates. $7.95.)

Previous articleNext article No AccessBooksMill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre. By Norman H. Clark. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1970. 267 pp. Index, chapter notes, epilogue, plates. $7.95.)John M. McClelland Jr.John M. McClelland Jr. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 15, Number 3October 1971 Published for the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/4004301 Journal History This article was published in the Forest History Newsletter (1957-1974), which was continued by the Journal of Forest History (1974-1989). © 1971 Forest History Society, Inc. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Review: Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre, by Norman H. Clark

Review: <i>Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre</i>, by Norman H. Clark

Factory Under the Elms: A History of Harrisville, New Hampshire, 1774-1969

This is a detailed history of one instance of a vanishing phenomenon, the small New England textile town. Source materials such as company records, public records, newspapers, personal interviews, and indeed the town itself, which survives very largely as it was a century ago, were examined with assiduous scholarship. The resulting history is colorful and lively, its rich detail making it good reading as well as careful history.Harrisville is located in the rugged highlands of southwestern New Hampshire. Although the original settlement of this area antedated the Revolution, it was early in the nineteenth century that Harrisville was brought into existence by the harnessing of an excellent fall of water for the manufacture of woolen cloth. In one important respect, the history of this mill town has been atypical. It never became an industrial slum, a ghost town, or the fief of some outside industrial overlord. Today, the town's economy rests on its numerous summer residents and on the up-to-date woolen mill still owned and operated by the same family that came there in the 1850s to compete with the Harrises. The mill village is well acquainted with hard times, but it remains neat, harmonious, and businesslike, an unusual place where the historic past merges indefinably into the active present and where the faded bricks laid down a century and a half ago continue to serve a living community.The survival of the nineteenth-century mill village also suggest Harrisville's real significance: it has adapted to change without destroying its past. The patina on this mill town affirms that the machine is man's servant, not his master, and that its end product can be, not the millennium, but comfort, order, beauty, and community.In tracing this story of two centuries of New England life, Professor Armstrong provides us with a detailed description of not only the growth of the towns and its mills but also of everyday life, disease and medical care, temperance and intemperance, modes of transportation, recreation, schools and churches, conflicts between mill owners, between farmers and mill population, between natives and immigrants, and through it all, the slow growth of a sense of community. Maps and photographs of the town, past and present, complement the text, and there are tables on wage rates, vital statistics, elections, population, town budgets, property valuations, and the schools. This very broad focus, together with scholarly treatment and careful organization of fact, will make this book a valuable addition to social history and a model for the writing of local history.John Borden Armstrong is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.

Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre

The Pacific Northwest's classic confrontation between militants demanding ambiguous change and an establishment intransigently defending the status quo occurred on Sunday, November 5, 1916. To this day no one knows who shot first, nor even how many died, but thanks to Mill Town, we have at last a charting of the forces, economic and personal, that led to the tragedy.-Murray Morgan

Three Architects of Early New Hampshire Mill Towns

RARELY are the early industrial buildings or the related vernacular architecture of New England manufacturing towns before the mid-nineteenth century ascribed to an architect. Occasionally, company records or local histories suggest that a mill owner or his agent was the designer of a factory. More often these same sources name a mason, millwright, or builder and imply that most decisions were left to their craft-training. By the second decade of the century, however, a few builder-architects appear, especially in the burgeoning mill villages founded by the larger textile corporations. The name of Asher Benjamin has long been associated with the early design and building of Nashua. However, the identification of two lesser architects, responsible for a number of important buildings in the mill towns of Nashua and Manchester, New Hampshire, calls for a reevaluation of Benjamin's role. The interrelationship of these three architectural designers, furthermore, illustrates the processes by which these industrial villages planned and developed their physical environment.

Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre. By Norman H. Clark. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1970. Pp. x + 267. $7.95.

Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre. By Norman H. Clark. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1970. Pp. x + 267. $7.95. - Volume 45 Issue 2