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"Kissing the Shuttle: A Lyric History" by Mary Ann Mayer
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- 143
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- 20 USD
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Item Description
Original poetry, compelling photographs, and contextual summaries depict the rise of textile mills and King Cotton in the 19th century through the turn of the 20th. With industrialization came a matrix of events, sometimes deadly, always in the name of prosperity: Labor ''paced'' for the first time to feed the world's frenzy for finished cloth. Northern collusion in slave-grown southern cotton. The tuberculosis epidemic. A common weaving practice that spread TB, ''kissing the shuttle,'' sucking thread through its eye, was nick-named ''the kiss of death.'' This subject connects with others in this lyrical narrative set largely in Rhode Island. The birthplace of American industry, the state also pioneered visionary reforms: ''open-air'' schools to curb TB, the first hot school lunch program and formal outdoor recess, child labor laws and factory sanitation. This inventive collection reenacts a little-known history, one at risk of being forgotten.
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