In this prize-winning study, Thomas Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes and traces the strong community awareness of these women from Lowell and relates it to labor protest movements of the 1830s and '40s.
Price: $38.00
Pages: 312
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
22 April 1981
Trim Size: 8.90 X 5.90 in
ISBN: 9780231041676
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / United States / General
Of the many books of Lowell's operatives, only Dublin's perceives the indissoluble relationship of consciousness and material reality. He has explored this history with better judgment and more sensitivity toward the common life of Lowell's female labor force than any other scholar of our day.
Thomas Dublin is professor of history at the State University of New York, Binghamton. He has edited two colections, Farm to Factory, Second Edition and Immigrant Voices and authored Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Ninteenth Century.
Tables
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Women Workers and Early Industrialization
2. The Early Textile Idustry and the Rise of Lowell
3. The Lowell Work Force, 1836, and the Social Origins of Women Workers
4. The Social Relations of Production in the Early Mills
5. The Boardinghouse
6. The Early Strikes: The 1830s
7. The Ten Hour Movement: The 1840s
8. The Transformation of Lowell, 1836-1850, and the New NMill Work Force
9. Immigrants in the Mills, 1850-1860
10. Housing and Families of Women Operatives
11. Careers of Operatives, 1836-1860
12. The Operatives' Response, 1850-1860
Appendixes
1. Preparation of the Hamilton Company Payroll, 1836
2. The Social Origins Study
3. The Hamilton Company Work Force, August 1850 and June 1860
4. The 1860 Millhand Sample
5. Sources of Bias and Considerations of Representativeness
