num_pages: 307
description: A study in local history. Troy, New York was a union town with many skilled Irish workers. Cohoes was a town where the paternalistic cotton mill hired unskilled French Canadian women and children.
language: English
title: Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton-Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-84
titlecomplete: Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton-Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-84
genres: Labor
ratings_count: 12
places: New York (State), Cohoes, New York, Troy, New York
series: The Working Class in American History
publisher: University of Illinois Press