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Peer reviewedPershey, Edward Jay – OAH Magazine of History, 1990
Documents history of Lowell, Massachusetts, from the careful planning of town, the recruitment of farm family daughters into the labor force, the demise of the town, and Lowell's subsequent regeneration as a high technology center in the 1970s and 1980s. Suggests that the study of this town's history can illuminate the study of current U.S. urban…
Descriptors: Community Development, Demography, Economic Development, Employed Women
