We Kept our Towns Going : the Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Book - 2021 331.4 Wo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / Michigan / Wong, Phyllis Michael None on shelf 1 request on 3 copies
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy."
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PUBLISHED
East Lansing Michigan State University Press [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 190 pages : black & white illustrations ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781611864205
1611864208
SUBJECTS
H.W. Gossard Company -- History -- 20th century.
Foundation garment industry -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century.
Women lingerie industry workers -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century.