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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Dublin, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1979]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 1979
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)

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.

Table of 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 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