One wonders if our lack of understanding-even among so-called progressives-and proper reverence for the pioneers who came before us is leading us back down the dark path of wage inequality and a surrender of the ground won by labor’s vanguard.

There's an old adage says that we are doomed to repeat history due to not learning the lessons that it teaches. I'm posting it here because I hope others read Watson's book, an excellent work that captures a period of America's labor history that tends to gets ignored by most.īread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by Bruce Watson I haven't heard back, so I'm guessing they are going to take a pass on it. Bruce Watson's book certainly falls into that category.Īfter reading the book, I pitched this review to a couple of left-leaning publications.

The book chronicles the 1912 textile workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.Īs a writer, one of the best things you can do to keep your writing fresh and energized, is to keep yourself supplied with good reading material, preferably the kind the pushes you to make your craft better. OL7989455W Page_number_confidence 93.92 Pages 374 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220221081154 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 636 Scandate 20220212133135 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780143037354 Tts_version 4.Back in late December, I caught writer Bruce Watson, on C-Span's Book TV, discussing his book, Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants and the American Dream.

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Bread and Roses by Bruce Watson