Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-429) and index. Originally published 1988.
Contents:
Origins of the sexual division of labor, 1750-1810 -- The rise of early labor protest, 1810-37 -- The social relations of production in the rural outwork system, 1837-45 -- Women and the artisan tradition -- The early factory system and the New England shoe strike of 1860 -- Crispin protest in the post-Civil War shoe factory -- Hard times and equal rights, 1873-80 -- New England shoeworkers and the Knights of Labor -- Militancy and disintegration, 1892-1910 -- The accounts of Charles Fisher, 1837, and William Peabody, 1835 -- The U.S. census of population: Lynn, Haverhill, and Marblehead, 1860 ; Lynn, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910.
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