Ten Hours' Labor : : Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England / / 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 illum...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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