American Management and British Labor
Lancashire Immigrant Spinners in Industrial New England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isaac Cohen (0000-0003-1827-2429, San Jose State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 608-650 |
| Publication date | 1985-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500011683 |
| OpenAlex | W2117427317 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 51 |
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
Economic history · Fall of man · Immigration · New england · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society
Population and social change.
Social Change in the Industrial Revolution
History of the labor movement in the United States …
The cotton trade of Great Britain
Beyond equality
Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution
Workers' control in America
The Early English Cotton Industry.
Strikes in France 1830–1968
A dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines
The History of Trade Unionism
Philosophy of Manufactures
American Industry and the European Immigrant, 1860–1885
Holyoke, Massachusetts. A Case History of the Industrial Revolution in America
British Immigrants in Industrial America, 1790-1950
Mill Architecture in Fall River
The Early New England Cotton Manufacture
Class struggle and the labour aristocracy, 1830–60
The Marxist theory of the labour aristocracy
Some comments on ‘Class struggle and the labour aristocracy, 1830–60’
Britons in American Labor
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Workers’ control in the cotton industry
Production Relations, Labor Productivity, and Choice of Technique
Recruiting Contract Laborers for the Amoskeag Mills
Industrial Emigration in Early Victorian Britain
The Transformation of Rhode Island, 1790-1860
Rockdale
Technological Change
The Early English Cotton Industry
The History of Wages in the Cotton Trade during the Past Hundred Years
Some Policies of the Cotton Spinners' Trade Unions
The Lancashire Cotton Industry
T. S. Ashton Prize Essay for 1976 Labour, Power, and the Size of Firms in Lancashire Cotton in the Second Quarter of the Nineteenth Century
Trade Union Growth, Structure and Policy
The Spinning Mule
Trade unions and emigration, 1840-80
The encouragement of emigration by British trade unions, 1850-1900
Pawtucket Village and the Strike of 1824
The English Cotton Industry and the World Market, 1815-96
Britons in American Labor
Worker City, Company Town
The Early English Trade Unions
The Lancashire Cotton Famine, 1861-65
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2022 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |