Women at Work. the Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 / Thomas Dublin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dublin, Thomas, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1979]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1826-1860. Looks at the early textile industry, the strikes, immigrants in the mills, and the housing and families of the women workers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Tables

Illustrations

A Note on Quotations

Chapter One. Women Workers and Early Industrialization

Chapter Two. The Early Textile Industry and the Rise of Lowell

Chapter Three. The Lowell Work Force, 1836, and the Social Origins of Women Workers

Chapter Four. The Social Relations of Production in the Early Mills

Chapter Five. The Boardinghouse

Chapter Seven. The Ten Hour Movement: The 1840s

Chapter Eight. The Transformation of Lowell, 1836-1850, and the New Mill Work Force

Chapter Nine. Immigrants in the Mills, 1850-1860

Chapter Ten. Housing and Families of Women Operatives

Chapter Eleven. Careers of Operatives, 1836-1860

Chapter Twelve. The Operatives' Response, 1850-1860

Appendix 1. Preparation of the Hamilton Company Payroll 1836

Appendix 2. The Social Origins Study

Appendix 3. The Hamilton Company Work Force, August 1850 and June 1860

Appendix 4. The 1860 Millhand Sample

Appendix 5. Sources of Bias and Considerations of Representativeness

Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89975-0

OCLC:

1100438101