Book Review: Robert Forrant and Jurg Siegenthaler (eds), The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike, Amityville, New York: Baywood Publishing Company, 2014, pp. v + 252, p/b, $49, ISBN 978 089503 8623

The internationally famous ‘Bread and Roses’ strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts
in 1912, needs little introduction to anyone who has studied labour history, for it
has rightly gained a legendary place in the pantheon of industrial conflict. Here
was a strike by 25,000 badly paid, essentially female, immigrant textile workers,
drawn from twenty-four countries, who fought against wage reductions arising
from their hours of work being reduced as a result of legislation in Massachusetts.