TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wong,Phyllis Michael
TI  - We kept our towns going: the Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
AV  - HD9969 .W66 2022
U1  - 331.4/88722092277496 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - 
PB  - Michigan State University Press
KW  - H.W. Gossard Company
KW  - Employees
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Foundation garment industry
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Women lingerie industry workers
N2  - "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"--
ER  -