The Yankee Yorkshireman's "Briardale"
Author : Mary H. Blewett
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Textile industry
ISBN :
Author : Mary H. Blewett
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Textile industry
ISBN :
Author : Mary H. Blewett
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0252076133
This study is a textual and contextual appraisal of the writings of Yorkshire-born Hedley Smith (1909-94) whose depiction of the fictional mill village of Briardale, Rhode Island, captures an early twentieth-century labor diaspora peopled with textile workers. Enraged and embittered at the transformatory experience of his own emigration, Smith used fiction to explore Yorkshire immigrants' culture and stubborn refusal to assimilate, their vital sexuality, and their vivid social customs. As Smith's writings reveal, emigration involves grief and anger, often universally concealed and problematic. Adopting a transnational perspective, Mary H. Blewett links Smith's fictional community to empirical data on the substance of working-class lives both in Yorkshire and in New England's worsted textile industries.
Author : Mary H. Blewett
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A part narrative, part analytical reconstruction of the history of the New England textile industry during the 19th century. The author examines industrialization from the point of view of both management and labour exploring their struggle in terms of class, culture and power.