Spoiled Silk: The Red Mayor and the Great Paterson Textile Strike

by George Shea

Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife Katherine, who started a new life in America's first industrial city, Paterson NJ, nourishing a vision of their adopted country that was never to be. Committed to a socialist dream, they struggled to improve the lot of their follow immigrants and, at the same time, to raise a family in the midst of the turbulence that surrounded them. Their efforts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823221334
• ISBN13: 9780823221332
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"