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"Restores the diverse voices of women shoe workers to their rightful place in the area's past. The book is especially good in its subtle address to working women's attitudes toward suffrage, femininity, and class." -- Journal of American History.
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This review is from: Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (Working Class in American History) (Paperback)
Mary Blewett has given us the best possible blending of thorough academic research with accessible, inviting prose. She has very effectively portrayed the evolution of working people's efforts to defend their economic wherewithal against the powerful forces of evolving merchant capitalism. Her clear, well-written interpretation of the interplay of labor and commerce in the 19th and early 20th centuries tells us a great deal about the origins of our current industrial society. The book is replete with engaging reportage of working people's lives in our emerging manufacturing centers. Blewett opens and offers a crucial sector of American history with literary style. Readers cannot help but enjoy the result.
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In the late eighteenth century, the shoemakers of Essex County began to recruit the women of their families to work on shoes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
women shoeworkers, boarding stitchers, female shoeworkers, striking stitchers, rural outwork system, union label contracts, lady stitchers, twenty stitchers, brogan uppers, shoe bosses, early labor protest, shoemaking families, national trade district, women stitchers, one stitcher, equal rights tradition, stamp factories, subcontract shops, female stitchers, stitching girls, other stitchers, stitching shop, mechanic ideology, many stitchers, most stitchers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Essex County, New England, New Hampshire, Knights of Labor, New York, Civil War, Emma Lane, Woman's Union, Lynn Knights, Mary Nason, Market Street, Female Society, River Street, Clara Brown, Sarah Trask, Garfield Assembly, Lynn Reporter, Chick Brothers, General Assembly, Lynn Record, Mary Damon, Middlesex Counties, Middlesex County, North Danvers, Protective Union New!
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In the late eighteenth century, the shoemakers of Essex County began to recruit the women of their families to work on shoes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
women shoeworkers, boarding stitchers, female shoeworkers, striking stitchers, rural outwork system, union label contracts, lady stitchers, twenty stitchers, brogan uppers, shoe bosses, early labor protest, shoemaking families, national trade district, women stitchers, one stitcher, equal rights tradition, stamp factories, subcontract shops, female stitchers, stitching girls, other stitchers, stitching shop, mechanic ideology, many stitchers, most stitchers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Essex County, New England, New Hampshire, Knights of Labor, New York, Civil War, Emma Lane, Woman's Union, Lynn Knights, Mary Nason, Market Street, Female Society, River Street, Clara Brown, Sarah Trask, Garfield Assembly, Lynn Reporter, Chick Brothers, General Assembly, Lynn Record, Mary Damon, Middlesex Counties, Middlesex County, North Danvers, Protective Union New!
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- Women In Industry by Edith Abbott on 8 pages
- City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 by Christine Stansell on 4 pages
- Women, Work and Family by Louise A. Tilly in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society (Working Class in American History) by Michael H Frisch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Necessity of Organization: Mary Kenney OOSullivan and Trade Unionism for Women, 1892-1912 (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor) by Kathleen B. Nutter on 8 pages
- Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 by Daniel Vickers on 4 pages
- Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century (The American Moment) by Walter Licht on page 212, page 214, and page 218
- Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War (Reconfiguring American Political History) by Mark Voss-Hubbard on page 232, and page 237
- American Artisans: Crafting Society Identity, 1750-1850 by Howard B. Rock in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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