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Work and Labor in Early America edited by Stephen Innes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor--United States--History.
- Labor.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- United States.
- United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labor in America from 1614 to 1820. Their essays recover the regimen that consumed the waking hours of most adults in the New World, defined their economic lives, and shaped their larger existence. Subjects include farmers, farmwives, urban laborers, plantation slave workers, midwives, and sailors; locales range from Maine to the Caribbean and high seas. The authors emphasize the choices that, over time, might lead to prosperity or to the poorhouse.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Fulfilling John Smith's Vision: Work and Labor in Early America; 1. Working the Fields in a Developing Economy: Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1675; 2. Martha Ballard and Her Girls: Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Maine; 3. Rural Labor and the Farm Household in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1820; 4. Economic Diversification and Labor Organization in the Chesapeake, 1650-1820; 5. Task and Gang Systems: The Organization of Labor on New World Plantations
- 6. The Vicissitudes of Fortune: The Careers of Laboring Men in Philadelphia, 1750-18007. The Anglo-American Seaman as Collective Worker, 1700-1750; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Notes on Contributors
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908799-4-3
- 979-88-908799-5-0
- 0-8078-3858-6
- 1-4696-0069-2
- OCLC:
- 966765093
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