Ten Hours' Labor : Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England / Teresa Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Teresa, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Although antebellum popular evangelicalism has been considered a middle-class phenomenon, Teresa Anne Murphy maintains that it was also a vital—and contested—arena of working-class life. Drawing on sources from labor and temperance journals to marriage records, diaries, and correspondence, she illuminates the extraordinary role of religion in the labor organization of New England mill towns. At the same time, she reconstructs the complex evolution in gender relations which enabled women workers to find a voice in the once exclusively male movement for a shorter workday.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Index

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Family, Work, and Authority: The Parameters of New England Paternalism

2. Labor Reform in the 1830s: Men's and Women’s Struggles

3. Control of Culture: Education, Morality, and Religion

4. Popular Religion and Working People

5. Exemplary Lives: The Washingtonians and Social Authority

6. The Petitioning of Artisans and Operatives: Means and Ends in the Struggle for a Ten-Hour Day

7. The Dilemmas of Moral Reform

8. Women, Gender, and the Ten-Hour Movement

Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3729-5

OCLC:

1198931237