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Title:

Work and labor in early America / edited by Stephen Innes.

Publisher:

Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c1988

Description:

297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Labor--United States--History.
United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Other Authors:

Innes, Stephen.
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Anglo American seaman as collective worker, 1700-1750 / Marcus Rediker. 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, Lucy Simler -- Economic diversification and the labor organization in the Chesapeake, 1650-1820 / Lois Green Carr, Lorena S. Walsh -- Task and gang systems : the organization of labor on new world plantations / Philip D. Morgan -- Vicissitudes of fortune : the careers of laboring men in Philadelphia, 1750-1800 / Billy G. Smith -- Anglo American seaman as collective worker, 1700-1750 / Marcus Rediker.

ISBN:

9780807842362 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807842362 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807817988 (alk. paper)
0807817988 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)17354122

LCCN:

87038088

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)