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Course of Industrial Decline:

The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955 (POD)
  • ISBN-13: 9780801863639
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Laurence F. Gross
  • Price: AUD $73.99
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2000
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of science [PDX]
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Studies of American industry frequently cite Lowell, Massachusetts, as an early model for business practices. Scholars have sought to explain the city's rise to prominence, the impact of its textile mills on workers and on commerce, and its part in regional development and American prosperity. Laurence Gross looks beyond these issues. Focusing on Lowell's Boott Cotton Mills, he examines the industry's struggle to maintain its prominence, the causes of its decline, and its ultimate flight south. Gross puts much of the blame for the pattern of events on the mill-owners themselves. They resisted reinvestment, so their operations became less efficient. They kept antiquated machinery running long after it was safe to do so, and they were slow to respond to issues of worker safety. The increased textile demands of World War II, Gross explains, only forestalled the mills' inevitable demise.

""A major contribution to our understanding of the city of Lowell and its significance in american industrial history... Gross does a masterful job of depicting the industrial process and the complex interplay between the worker, the machinery, and the management.""

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