Spoiled silk
Subtitle: the Red mayor and the great Paterson textile strike
By: George William Shea.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Brueckmann, William; Brueckmann, Katherine; Socialists -- United States -- Biography; Mayors -- New Jersey -- Haledon -- Biography; Silk Workers' Strike, Paterson, N.J., 1913
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife, Katherine, who started a new life in the American industrial city of Paterson, New Jersey. Committed to a socialist dream, they struggled to improve the lot of their fellow immigrants and, at the same time, to raise a family in the midst of the turbulence surrounding them.

Their efforts contributed to the long-lived struggle to improve working conditions in American mills, but their dream of a socialist America was never to be realized."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.