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Author Wong, Phyllis Michael, author.

Title We kept our towns going : the Gossard girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula / Phyllis Michael Wong
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Summary "Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject H.W. Gossard Company -- Employees -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT H.W. Gossard Company fast
Subject Foundation garment industry -- Michigan -- Employees -- History -- 20th century
Women lingerie industry workers -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- General.
Women lingerie industry workers
Employees
Michigan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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