Title: Spoiled silk
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.
Subjects: Biography, Mayors, Silk Workers' Strike, Paterson, N.J., 1913, Socialists, Mayors, biography, New jersey, biography, Strikes and lockouts, silk industry, New jersey, history, New jersey, politics and government
Places: Haledon, New Jersey, United States
People: Katherine Brueckmann, William Brueckmann