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We Kept Our Towns Going - The Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Paperback)
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We Kept Our Towns Going - The Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Paperback)
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Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and
severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored
to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. But there were factories in the Upper
Peninsula, too, and women who worked in them. Phyllis Michael Wong
tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and
bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn from the early twentieth
century to the 1970s. As the Upper Peninsula's mines became
increasingly exhausted and its stands of timber further depleted,
the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the
local economy. During this time the workers showed their political
and economic strength, including a successful four-month strike in
the 1940s that capped an eight-year struggle to unionize. Drawing
on dozens of interviews with the surviving workers and their
families, this book highlights the daily challenges and joys of
these mostly first- and second-generation immigrant women. It also
illuminates the way the Gossard Girls navigated shifting ideas of
what single and married women could and should do as workers and
citizens. From cutting cloth and distributing materials to getting
paid and having fun, Wong gives us a rare ground-level view of
piecework in a clothing factory from the women on the sewing room
floor.
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