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Cash, Wiley

Summary: Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and all that she loves. Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cash

Paterson, Katherine.

Summary: Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2006

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT FICTION Paterson

Duncan, Pamela

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

Alcott, Kate.

Summary: Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALC

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