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Author:

Blewett, Mary H.

Title:

Men, women, and work : class, gender, and protest in the New England shoe industry, 1780-1910 / Mary H. Blewett.

Edition:

Illini Books ed.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

1990

Description:

xxii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Shoe industry--New England--History--History--19th century.
Shoe industry--New England--History--19th century.
Working class--New England--History.
New England--Economic conditions.
Economic history.
Shoe industry.
Shoe industry--Employees.
Working class.
New England.
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

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.

Series:

The Working class in American history

ISBN:

9780252014840
0252014847
9780252061424
025206142X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)22748360

Locations:

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)