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Sex, lies and woodworkers. (labor unionism among furniture workers in Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Wood & Wood Products
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January 1, 1995
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Grand Rapids in 1900 was a bustling river town, not fully settled, but no a longer frontier. The red light district was located in the river valley while the mansions of the wealthy overlooked the city from Heritage Hill.
Scattered along the river and throughout the city were 85 furniture and woodworking factories. Berkey & Gay, Widdicomb, American School Furniture Co. (American Seating), Sligh, Stickley Bros. and others were making this city of 87,576 the furniture capital of the United States, a title it held until the Great Depression.
It was the cheap labor ...
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