Farm to Factory: Women's Letters, 1830-1860

2. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-231-08157-3
Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 217 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Between 1820 and 1860, tens of thousands of single women streamed from rural New England to find work in the burgeoning factory towns of the region. In "Farm to Factory" Thomas Dublin has selected five sets of letters in order to provide a personal view of the first generation of American women employed for wages outside their own homes. The letters he has selected provide a unique perspective on early industrial capitalism and its effects on women.

The second edition of what has become a classic work contains a new introduction, placing the women's correspondence in the context of broader economic developments in early-nineteenth-century New England, and a new set of letters written by Emeline Larcom from Lowell, Massachusetts. Like thos in the first edition, these letters will lure you back in time, offering a broadened view of women's lives in the nineteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dublin, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IllustrationsPreface to Second EditionAcknowledgementIntroduction1. The Hodgdon Letters2. Letters to Sabrina Bennett3. The Larcom Letters4. Mary Paul Letters5. Delia Page LettersAfterwordIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Dublin is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghampton. He is also the author of "Women at Work" (Columbia University Press) which won the Bancroft Prize.