Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910
by Mary H. Blewett
University of Illinois Press, 1988 Paper: 978-0-252-06142-4 | Cloth: 978-0-252-01484-0 Library of Congress Classification HD8039.B72U63 1988 Dewey Decimal Classification 338.476853100974
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Mary H. Blewett is a professor emerita of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her books include The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960, and Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England.
REVIEWS
Winner of the 1989 Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1989. Winner of the New England Historical Association Book Award, 1989. Co-winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, 1989.
— LAWCHA
Winner of the 1989 Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1989. Winner of the New England Historical Association Book Award, 1989. Co-winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, 1989.
— New England Historical Association
Winner of the 1989 Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1989. Winner of the New England Historical Association Book Award, 1989. Co-winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, 1989.
— American Historical Association
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
CHAPTER ONE Origins of the Sexual Division of Labor, 1750-1810 3
CHAPTER TWO The Rise of Early Labor Protest, 1810-37 20
CHAPTER THREE The Social Relations of Production in the Rural Outwork System, 1837-45 44
CHAPTER FOUR Women and the Artisan Tradition 68
CHAPTER FIVE The Early Factory System and the New England Shoe Strike of 1860 97
CHAPTER SIX Crispin Protest in the Post-Civil War Shoe Factory 142
CHAPTER SEVEN Hard Times and Equal Rights, 1873-80 191
CHAPTER EIGHT New England Shoeworkers and the Knights of Labor 221
CHAPTER NINE Militancy and Disintegration, 1892-1910 267
Conclusion 320
APPENDIX A The Accounts of Charles Fisher, 1837, and William Peabody, 1835 326
APPENDIX B The U.S. Census of Population: Lynn, Haverhill, and Marblehead, 1860; Lynn, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910 329
Abbreviations 353
Notes 355
Bibliography of Primary and Unpublished Sources 425
Index 431
Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910
by Mary H. Blewett
University of Illinois Press, 1988 Paper: 978-0-252-06142-4 Cloth: 978-0-252-01484-0
Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Mary H. Blewett is a professor emerita of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her books include The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960, and Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England.
REVIEWS
Winner of the 1989 Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1989. Winner of the New England Historical Association Book Award, 1989. Co-winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, 1989.
— LAWCHA
Winner of the 1989 Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1989. Winner of the New England Historical Association Book Award, 1989. Co-winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, 1989.
— New England Historical Association
Winner of the 1989 Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1989. Winner of the New England Historical Association Book Award, 1989. Co-winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, 1989.
— American Historical Association
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
CHAPTER ONE Origins of the Sexual Division of Labor, 1750-1810 3
CHAPTER TWO The Rise of Early Labor Protest, 1810-37 20
CHAPTER THREE The Social Relations of Production in the Rural Outwork System, 1837-45 44
CHAPTER FOUR Women and the Artisan Tradition 68
CHAPTER FIVE The Early Factory System and the New England Shoe Strike of 1860 97
CHAPTER SIX Crispin Protest in the Post-Civil War Shoe Factory 142
CHAPTER SEVEN Hard Times and Equal Rights, 1873-80 191
CHAPTER EIGHT New England Shoeworkers and the Knights of Labor 221
CHAPTER NINE Militancy and Disintegration, 1892-1910 267
Conclusion 320
APPENDIX A The Accounts of Charles Fisher, 1837, and William Peabody, 1835 326
APPENDIX B The U.S. Census of Population: Lynn, Haverhill, and Marblehead, 1860; Lynn, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910 329
Abbreviations 353
Notes 355
Bibliography of Primary and Unpublished Sources 425
Index 431
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC