Transforming Women's Work
Subtitle: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: August 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780801428449
Subjects: Employment & unemployment; Women's studies; Women's Studies - History; Industrial revolution; Employment Of Women; Business / Economics / Finance; Women; History: American; Wages; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; General; Employment; History; New England
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.