E. Hawkins and Charles Taft, Linweave Paper Company (closed in 1989), Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1989

E. Hawkins and Charles Taft, Linweave Paper Company (closed in 1989), Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1989

   

"It used to be a secure job. Not anymore. The way things look around here, you never know what's going to happen to the industry the next day . . .. It scares me when I think about the amount of years I've put in here . . .. It's kind of tough to get a job when you're my age."
--Angel Ramirez

 

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