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Mill girls and strangers : single women's independent migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881 /
"In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this inno...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this innovative and comparative study examines the migrants' lives by addressing their reasons for migration, their relationship to their families, the roles they played in the cities to which they moved, and the dangers they met as a result of their youth, gender, separation from family. Gordon details both the similarities and differences in the women's migration experiences, and somewhat surprisingly concludes that they became financially independent, rather than primarily contributors to a family economy."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585491380 9780585491387 0791455262 9780791455265 0791455254 9780791455258 9780791487822 0791487822 |