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Irish titan, Irish toilers : Joseph Banigan and nineteenth-century New England labor / Scott Molloy.
Lippincott Library HD8083.N34 M65 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Molloy, Scott.
- Series:
- Revisiting New England
- Revisiting New England : the new regionalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States Rubber Company.
- Woonsocket Rubber Company.
- Industrial relations--New England--History--19th century.
- Industrial relations.
- Banigan, Joseph.
- Woonsocket Rubber Company--Rhode Island--History--19th century.
- Rubber industry and trade--Rhode Island--History--19th century.
- Rubber industry and trade.
- United States Rubber Company--History--19th century.
- Businessmen--United States--History--19th century.
- Businessmen.
- Irish--United States--History--19th century.
- Irish.
- History.
- United States.
- Rhode Island.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Joseph Banigan and nineteenth-century New England labor
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : published by University Press of New England, [2008]
- Summary:
- In 1847 Joseph Banigan, an Irish Potato Famine refugee, established himself in Rhode Island as an entrepreneur. This was a time when "No Irish Need Apply" signs abounded and discrimination against the Irish-institutionalized in the constitution of his adopted state-hindered voting and other human rights. Bucking this trend and belying his humble origins, Banigan succeeded spectacularly in the emerging local rubber footwear industry, becoming the president of the United States Rubber Company-one of the nation's major cartels-and Rhode Island's first Irish-Catholic millionaire. Backed by primary and secondary research spanning two continents, Molloy's inquiry into Banigan's notoriety and success singularly codifies and elucidates the Irish-American experience during this critical period in American labor history.
- Contents:
- Spouting
- The Irish background
- Rhode Island's Yankee ascendancy
- The Rhode Island Irish
- The Woonsocket Rubber Company
- A knight of St. Gregory against the Knights of Labor
- Tragedy, philanthropy, and lace curtain
- Rubber king and rubber workers
- The United States Rubber Company
- Conclusion: a memorial forever.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781584656906
- 1584656905
- 9781584656913
- 1584656913
- OCLC:
- 190778028
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