The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove BISAC-SOC002010 Using history

Using history

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Darrel Surett

The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove BISAC-SOC002010 Using historyThe Belles of New England is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's textile mills. The author, an award winning CBS producer, traces the history of American textile manufacturing back to the ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lodge. The early mills were an experiment in benevolent enlightened social responsibility on the part of the wealthy owners, who belonged to many of Boston's