| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. By Bruce Watson. (New York: Viking, 2005. 337 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-670-03397-9.)
The 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts, textile strike is a labor history landmark. Aided by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizers, participants in the "bread and roses" strike drew on community resources to mobilize a creative, militant struggle that won them improved wages and working conditions.	1
The strike captured nationwide attention with huge parades, mass picketing, and the evacuation of strikers' children. Journalists and strike supporters pointed to harsh living conditions, women's militancy, the strikers' multiethnic cooperation, and the authorities' heavy-handed repression.	2
Those events provide rich material for journalist Bruce Watson's lively narrative organized around a cast of characters that includes IWW organizers and American Woolen Company President William M. Wood. Sympathetic to the strikers' complaints about their living and working conditions but uncomfortable with their militancy and ambivalent toward the IWW, Watson highlights the strikers' determination and sacrifices and offers colorful accounts of events like a dynamite plot by strike foes and the children's exodus.	. . .

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