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We Will Rise in Our Might : Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Documents in American Social History
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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