Black Powder, White Lace
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A01=Margaret M. Mulrooney
American history
American studies
Author_Margaret M. Mulrooney
black powder
black powder industry
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cultural studies
Delaware history
do Pont
domestic life
domesticity
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explosives
gunpowder
Hagley powder mill
history
history of explosives
history of gunpowder
immigrant workers
Irish American
Irish community
Irish diaspora studies
Irish immigrants
Irish powder workers
Irish studies
labor history
labor studies
Margaret Mulrooney
nineteenth-century America
nineteenth-century studies
race and ethnic studies
regional studies
the du Pont Irish
TNT
unions
worker equality
worker's benefits
worker's equity
Product details
- ISBN 9781644532805
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2022
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Twenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now electronically available to the public, and as debates about immigration continue to rage, a new edition of the book is being published to remind readers of the rich materials available on the du Pont workers, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America. Explosives work was dangerous, but the du Ponts provided a host of benefits to their workers. As a result, the Irish remained loyal to their employers, convinced by their everyday experiences that their interests and the du Ponts' were one and the same. Employing a wide array of sources, Mulrooney turns away from the worksite and toward the domestic sphere, revealing that powder mill families asserted their distinctive ethno-religious heritage at the same time as they embraced what U.S. capitalism had to offer.
Margaret Mulrooney is a Professor of History at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. She is the author of Deep Current: Race, Place and Memory in Wilmington, NC (2018) and the editor of Fleeing the Famine: North America and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851 (2003).
