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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gordon, Wendy M., 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Transitions in the City: Independent Female Migration, 1850-1881
  • Single Female Migrants in Historical Perspectives
  • Ch. 2 Preston: The Unseen Migrants
  • Migrants and Domestic Service in Preston
  • Migrants' Economy
  • Ch. 3 Lowell: The Mill Girls
  • Migrants and the Textile Industry in Lowell
  • Migrants' Society
  • Desire to See the City
  • Migrants' Independence
  • Ch. 4 Paisley: The Strangers and the Maids
  • Migrants and Domestic Service in Paisley
  • Migrants and Bleaching in Paisley
  • Accommodating Independent Migrants
  • Migrants' Economy
  • To Prosecute Her Claim
  • Personal Migration Patterns
  • Migrants at Risk
  • Ch. 5 Comparisons: The Migrants Beside Themselves.