We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls Of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. As the Upper Peninsula's mines became increasingly exhausted and its stands of timber further depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy.

• | Author: Phyllis Michael Wong
• | Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 196 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1611864208
• | ISBN-13: 9781611864205