We Will Rise in Our Might : : Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England / / Mary H. Blewett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Blewett, Mary H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Documents in American Social History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 16 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Industrialization of Shoe Production in Nineteenth-Century New England --; Part I. Women Shoeworkers in the Household AND Early Factory, 1780-1860 --; Introduction --; 1. Family Labor on Shoes --; 2. The Outwork System --; 3. Outbreaks of Early Labor Protest --; 4. Women Workers and Artisan Protest --; 5. Mechanization and the Early Factory System --; 6. The New England Shoe Strike of i860 --; Part II. Work and Protest in the Post-Civil War Factory, 1865-1910 --; 7. The Factory Girl as Moral Lady --; 8. The Daughters of St. Crispin --; 9. Workingwomen and the Women’s Rights Movement --; 10. Married Women in the Shoe Shops: A Debate --; 11. Labor Protest and the Nature of Womanhood --; 12. The Persistence of Homework --; 13. Lady Knights of Labor --; 14. Trade Union Women --; 15. The Crisis of Sisterhood --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501733437; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501733437
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mary H. Blewett.

This collection assembles a rich cache of documentary materials—letters, account books, diaries, reminiscences, testimony, eyewitness reports—that illuminate women's involvement in the industrialization of the northeastern United States. It focuses on the shoemaking industry of eastern Massachusetts to illustrate the development of pre-industrial household production; the rise of the factory system; and the parallel operation of outwork and factory stitching in the late nineteenth century.Mary H. Blewett examines the interplay of class and gender: the changes in the organization of work and the composition of the work force as well as changes in women's consciousness of womanhood. the documents she selects reveal the significance of gender institutions. The articulate voices of these contentious New England working women testify to their interest in antislavery and temperance, as well as women's rights and woman suffrage. they air their disagreements with each other and with working-class men about labor protest, partisan politics, family obligations, and notions of moral respectability. In this splendidly varied chorus of voices, Blewett identifies a hitherto unknown feminism that developed from the everyday experience of ordinary workers.