Barrows Imposes Literacy Requirement
Title
Barrows Imposes Literacy Requirement
Description
Barrows announces that all Windham Linen Company workers who are not literate by the 4th of July, 1883 can no longer hold employment in his company—“He hoped that this threat would accelerate the Americanization of his mainly foreign-born workforce.”
Source
Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 39.
Date
1882
Contributor
dore_lindsey
Mediator
horn_allen
Collection
Citation
“Barrows Imposes Literacy Requirement,” History Digitized, accessed October 24, 2024, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/794.