Thomas L. Dublin 
Transforming Women’s Work [PDF ebook] 
New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution

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‘I am not living upon my friends or doing housework for my board but am a factory girl, ‘ asserted Anna Mason in the early 1850s. Although many young women who worked in the textile mills found that the industrial revolution brought greater independence to their lives, most working women in nineteenth-century New England did not, according to Thomas Dublin. Sketching engaging portraits of women’s experience in cottage industries, factories, domestic service, and village schools, Dublin demonstrates that the autonomy of working women actually diminished as growing numbers lived with their families and contributed their earnings to the household.

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 working women 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.

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A propos de l’auteur

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.

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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 344 ● ISBN 9781501723827 ● Taille du fichier 42.1 MB ● Maison d’édition Cornell University Press ● Lieu Ithaca ● Pays US ● Publié 2018 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6432774 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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