Entangled lives : labor, livelihood, and landscapes of change in rural Massachusetts / Marla R. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Marla R., author.

Series:

Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Massachusetts--Hadley--History--18th century.

Women.

Women--Massachusetts--Hadley--Social conditions--18th century.

Women--Employment--Massachusetts--Hadley--History--18th century.

Sex role--Massachusetts--Hadley--History--18th century.

Sex role.

Manners and customs.

History.

Women--Employment.

Social conditions.

Massachusetts--Social life and customs--18th century.

Massachusetts.

Women--Social conditions.

Massachusetts--Hadley.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 355 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"This is a localized study of social history about women who lived in the late eighteenth century in Hadley, Massachusetts. Specifically, it studies the work they did and how that work fit into the local economy. The author investigates the social openings and opportunities that work created for women, the vital place of women in the local economy, and the boundaries that women's work created."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : placings

From Nolwotogg to Hadley

Women, work, and the business of gentility : the view from forty acres

Women, work, and 'economies of makeshift' : the view from the back street

Domestic service

Making cloth

Hospitality work

Healing and caregiving

Working women and the domestic landscapes of Forty Acres

New labor, new landscapes

Coda : remembering women and work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421432748

1421432749

OCLC:

1083183884