"Nelson... is] one of the country's leading labor scholars.... His] work provides an invaluable... guide to understanding a critical region...." --Ohio History

..". I learned quite a lot from reading Farm and Factory, and this will certainly be the case for all who pick up this valuable and informative book." --Minnesota History

..". a valuable source for anyone concerned with regional and national tendencies in labor relations and ecomomic change over the last century." --American Political Science Review

..". a useful and well written synthesis of labor history in the...