Related Books

The Polish Community of Worcester
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Barbara Proko
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Near the beginning of the twentieth century, thousands of Polish immigrants embarked upon the American Dream in Worcester as the city's lowest-paid mill workers
Worcester County's Polish Community
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Barbara Proko
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Polish settlement in Worcester County had humble beginnings: a small group of German Poles in the 1870s. Over the next decades, thousands of Russian and Austria
Polish Community of Worcester
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Barbara Proko
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10 - Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Near the beginning of the twentieth century, thousands of Polish immigrants embarked upon the American Dream in Worcester as the city's lowest-paid mill workers
The Polish Community of Chicopee
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Stephen R. Jendrysik
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-11-02 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The first group of Polish immigrants to come to Chicopee arrived in 1880. These Poles filled many of the manufacturing jobs in the city's two large textile mill
The Polish Community of New Britain
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Jonathan Shea
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Factory jobs in “the Hardware City of the World” began attracting Polish immigrants to New Britain in the 1890s. The Poles soon became the city’s largest