Author

Publication

1993 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

78,000 words, Guess

Page Count

312 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivewomenatworktrans00dubl
  • ISBN-100231041675
  • ISBN-100231041667
  • ISBN-139780231041676
  • ISBN-139780231041669
and 7 more
  • LibraryThing85450
  • Goodreads376200', '359149
  • Library of Congress Control Number98122010
  • Library of Congress Control Number79010701
  • OCLC Control Number4805234
  • Better World Books9780231041669
  • Open LibraryOL418306M

Classifications

  • DDC331.4/877/0097444
  • LCCHD6073.T42 U52 1993
  • LCCHD6073.T42 U52

Description

Prize-winning social origins study about how the employment of women in the mills (1826-1860) enabled women to enjoy social and independence unknown to their mothers' generation. Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism, and describes and traces the strong community awareness of these women from Lowell, relating it to labor protest movements of the 1830s and '40s.

First Sentence

WOMEN have always worked, but until the past century their work has been confined almost entirely to the domestic setting, and it has been for the most part unpaid labor.

Subjects

Topics

MassWomenLaborLowellHistoryHistoriaIndustries

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  • Women at work: the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860Columbia University Press1993-01-01
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