Class and Community (25th Anniversary Edition)

The Industrial Revolution in Lynn

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by Alan Dawley

Harvard University Press

Due/Published September 2000, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 0674004310

Available again, now with a new preface (F00)

In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his Bancroft Prize-winning book, Dawley reflects on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth century. He not only revisits this urban conglomeration, but also seeks out previously unheard groups such as women and blacks. The result is a more rounded portrait of a small eastern city on the verge of becoming modern.