Poirier, Clarisse A.2022-10-182022-10-181978https://hdl.handle.net/2144/45246PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.On January 10, 1860, the five-story Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, collapsed, burying more than six hundred Irish and native-born textile workers in a vast pile of debris. The event had many consequences. It affected numerous practices in the textile industry. It brought the Pemberton lasting notoriety. It produced an unusual body of information about the textile industry of 1860. Finally, the tragedy and the legends it gave rise to served to obscure events and important aspects of the mill's history.en-USHistoryThesis/Dissertation