Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution

by Thomas Dublin

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801480906
• ISBN13: 9780801480904
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher