Transforming Women's Work
Subtitle: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: August 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780801480904
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Women's studies; Sociology; History: American; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; Women's Studies - History
First sentence: The industrial revolution that transformed Western Europe and the United States during the course of the nineteenth century had its origins in the introduction of power-driven machinery in the English and Scottish textile industries in the second half of the eighteenth century.