We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

by Phyllis Michael Wong

Book Overview

WITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY--Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But there were factories in the Upper Peninsula, too, and women who worked in them. Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611864208
• ISBN13: 9781611864205
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"