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