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Transforming Women's Work : New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution /

From diaries, letters, account books, and censuses, Dublin reconstructs employment patterns across the century as he shows how wage work increasingly came to serve the needs of families, rather than of individual women. He first examines the case of rural women engaged in the cottage industries of w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dublin, Thomas, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women and rural outwork
  • Lowell millhands
  • Lynn shoeworkers
  • Boston servants and garment workers
  • New Hampshire teachers
  • Workingwomen in New England, 1900.