Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution
Brand: Cornell University Press
Categories: Books, History, Americas


Used Book in Good Condition

Dimensions: 6 x 1.02 x 9 inches
Reading age: 18 years and up
ISBN-13: 978-0801428449
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780801428449
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Print length: 344 pages
Publication date: June 3, 1994
subtitle: Hardcover – June 3, 1994
author: Visit Amazon's Thomas Dublin Page search results Thomas Dublin
review: Editorial Reviews Review "In his impressively researched book, Thomas Dublin examines the transformation of women's work in New England, the first American region to be reshaped by the Industrial Revolution.... A valuable addition to the scholar's shelf. The data provide the single most detailed description of women and work a century ago." ― New York Times Book Review "No historian has done more to illuminate the achievements of female labor in the early textile mills than Thomas Dublin.... In this latest book, he provides a broad account of women's work during the industrial transformation of America, giving us the chance to test the typicality of the factory experience against other forms of female employment. He mines a breathtaking array of sources, including business records, census data, deeds, wills, diaries, and personal correspondence, to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding women's work in New England from the 1820s to 1900.... Dublin's ingenious detective work in matching families in archival sources enables him to make important points." ― Women's Review of Books Review "An elegant and important contribution to the literature on women's employment." -- Louise A. Tilly From the Back Cover From diaries, letters, account books, and censuses, Dublin reconstructs employment patterns across the century as he shows how wage work increasingly came to serve the needs of families, rather than of individual women. He first examines the case of rural women engaged in the cottage industries of weaving and palm-leaf hatmaking between 1820 and 1850. Next, he compares the employment experiences of women in the textile mills of Lowell and the shoe factories of Lynn. Following a discussion of Boston workingwomen in the middle decades of the century - particularly domestic servants and garment workers - Dublin turns his attention to the lives of women teachers in three New Hampshire towns. About the Author Thomas Dublin is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His many books include Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side , also from Cornell. Read more