Bread and Roses: The Women Who Paralyzed the Looms

In the early 20th century, the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts, were incredibly dangerous, deafeningly loud sweatshops powered by the desperate labor of exhausted immigrants. When the mill owners callously slashed wages by a few pennies in the dead of a freezing winter in 1912, they expected the women to quietly accept it. Instead, they sparked one of the most brilliant and successful lab...