Ten Hours' Labor : : Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England / / Teresa Murphy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Murphy, Teresa,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Index --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Family, Work, and Authority: The Parameters of New England Paternalism --; 2. Labor Reform in the 1830s: Men's and Women’s Struggles --; 3. Control of Culture: Education, Morality, and Religion --; 4. Popular Religion and Working People --; 5. Exemplary Lives: The Washingtonians and Social Authority --; 6. The Petitioning of Artisans and Operatives: Means and Ends in the Struggle for a Ten-Hour Day --; 7. The Dilemmas of Moral Reform --; 8. Women, Gender, and the Ten-Hour Movement --; Conclusion --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501737299; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501737299
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Teresa Murphy.

Although antebellum popular evangelicalism has been considered a middle-class phenomenon, Teresa Anne Murphy maintains that it was also a vital—and contested—arena of working-class life. Drawing on sources from labor and temperance journals to marriage records, diaries, and correspondence, she illuminates the extraordinary role of religion in the labor organization of New England mill towns. At the same time, she reconstructs the complex evolution in gender relations which enabled women workers to find a voice in the once exclusively male movement for a shorter workday.