Portland Public Library

Men, women, and work, class, gender, and protest in the New England shoe industry, 1780-1910, Mary H. Blewett

Label
Men, women, and work, class, gender, and protest in the New England shoe industry, 1780-1910, Mary H. Blewett
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-429) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Men, women, and work
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
22748360
Responsibility statement
Mary H. Blewett
Series statement
The Working class in American history
Sub title
class, gender, and protest in the New England shoe industry, 1780-1910
Table Of Contents
Origins of the sexual division of labor, 1750-1810 -- The rise of early labor protest, 1810-37 -- The social relations of production in the rural outwork system, 1837-45 -- Women and the artisan tradition -- The early factory system and the New England shoe strike of 1860 -- Crispin protest in the post-Civil War shoe factory -- Hard times and equal rights, 1873-80 -- New England shoeworkers and the Knights of Labor -- Militancy and disintegration, 1892-1910 -- The accounts of Charles Fisher, 1837, and William Peabody, 1835 -- The U.S. census of population: Lynn, Haverhill, and Marblehead, 1860 ; Lynn, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
Content
Mapped to