We Will Rise in Our Might : : Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England / / 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 Massachu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Documents in American Social History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 16 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Introduction
- 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