Table of Contents
- Frontmatter (page N/A)
- Frontmatter (page ix)
- Illustrations (page xv)
- Preface (page xvii)
- Acknowledgments (page xxxv)
- Chapter One Women Workers and Early Industrialization (page 1)
- Chapter Two The Early Textile Industry and the Rise of Lowell (page 14)
- Chapter Three The Lowell Work Force, 1836, and the Social Origins of Women Workers (page 23)
- Chapter Four The Social Relations of Production in the Early Mills (page 58)
- Chapter Five The Boardinghouse (page 75)
- Chapter Six The Early Strikes: The 1830's (page 86)
- Chapter Seven The Ten Hour Movement: the 1840's (page 108)
- Chapter Eight (page 132)
- Chapter Nine Immigrants in the Mills, 1850-1860 (page 145)
- Chapter Ten housing and Families of Women Opeatives (page 165)
- Chapter Eleven Careers of Operatives 1836-1860 (page 183)
- Chapter Twelve The Operatives Response (page 198)
- Appendixes (page 209)
- Abbreviations (page 251)
- Notes (page 253)
- Selected Bibliography (page 293)
- Index (page 309)