We Will Rise in Our Might : Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England / Mary H. Blewett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blewett, Mary H., Author.

Series:

Documents in American Social History Series

Documents in American Social History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Womens Studies.

Local Subjects:

Womens Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.) : 16 halftones

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection assembles a rich cache of documentary materials-letters, account books, diaries, reminiscences, testimony, eyewitness reports-that illuminate women's involvement in the industrialization of the northeastern United States. It focuses on the shoemaking industry of eastern Massachusetts to illustrate the development of pre-industrial household production; the rise of the factory system; and the parallel operation of outwork and factory stitching in the late nineteenth century.Mary H. Blewett examines the interplay of class and gender: the changes in the organization of work and the composition of the work force as well as changes in women's consciousness of womanhood. the documents she selects reveal the significance of gender institutions. The articulate voices of these contentious New England working women testify to their interest in antislavery and temperance, as well as women's rights and woman suffrage. they air their disagreements with each other and with working-class men about labor protest, partisan politics, family obligations, and notions of moral respectability. In this splendidly varied chorus of voices, Blewett identifies a hitherto unknown feminism that developed from the everyday experience of ordinary workers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Industrialization of Shoe Production in Nineteenth-Century New England

Part I. Women Shoeworkers in the Household AND Early Factory, 1780-1860

Introduction

1. Family Labor on Shoes

2. The Outwork System

3. Outbreaks of Early Labor Protest

4. Women Workers and Artisan Protest

5. Mechanization and the Early Factory System

6. The New England Shoe Strike of i860

Part II. Work and Protest in the Post-Civil War Factory, 1865-1910

7. The Factory Girl as Moral Lady

8. The Daughters of St. Crispin

9. Workingwomen and the Women's Rights Movement

10. Married Women in the Shoe Shops: A Debate

11. Labor Protest and the Nature of Womanhood

12. The Persistence of Homework

13. Lady Knights of Labor

14. Trade Union Women

15. The Crisis of Sisterhood

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781501733437

1501733435

OCLC:

1129171440