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Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860

Thomas Dublin
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  • 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)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 69.4 (Mar. 1983): 947-949 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28198303%2969%3A4%3C947%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
AHR 87.2 (Apr. 1982): 538 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198204%2987%3A2%3C538%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
JEH 40.3 (Sep. 1980): 654-655 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28198009%2940%3A3%3C654%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
RAH 8.3 (Sep. 1980): 351-359 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28198009%298%3A3%3C351%3AWW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
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Published: c1993
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780231041669 (hardcover)
  • 9780231041676 (paper)
  • 9780231899758 (ebook)
Subject
  • American: 1789-1899
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