Work and Labor in Early America /
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press,
1988.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction: Fulfilling John Smith's vision: work and labor in early America / Stepehen Innes
- Working the fields in a developing economy: Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1675 / Daniel Vickers
- Martha Ballard and her girls: women's work in eighteenth-century Maine / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Rural labor and the farm household in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1820 / Paul G.E. Clemens and Lucy Simler
- Economic diversification and the labor organization in the Chesapeake, 1650-1820 / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh
- Task and gang systems: the organization of labor on new world plantations / Philip D. Morgan
- The vicissitudes of fortune: the careers of laboring men in Philadelphia, 1750-1800 / Billy G. Smith
- The Anglo-American seaman as collective worker, 1700-1750 / Marcus Rediker.


