ABSTRACT
Between January and March 1912, the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts
(also known as the Bread and Roses Strike) captured the nation’s attention. An
estimated 25,000 mostly immigrant and unskilled workers struck for nine weeks
against powerful economic, political, and social interests and won. The strike,
which occurred during the unusually cold and snowy winter of 1912, was a
reaction of people pushed to the extreme through the constant degradation of
their living and working conditions.
