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We Kept Our Towns Going (Phyllis Michael Wong)

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We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula by Phyllis Michael Wong is a historical study of women workers in the Gossard undergarment factories of Ishpeming and Gwinn, Michigan. Published by Michigan State University Press, the book reconstructs the lives of mostly first- and second-generation immigrant women who sewed corsets, bras, and foundation garments from the early twentieth century through the 1970s. Its central purpose is both historical and corrective: it challenges the common assumption that white women largely entered paid work only in the 1970s by documenting an earlier and substantial labor force that helped sustain families and local communities. Drawing on oral histories, archival material, and union-related sources, Wong presents the factory not just as an industrial site but as a social world shaped by labor, gender roles, immigrant experience, and collective action.