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Women at work: the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860
Dublin, Thomas, 1946-
Year: c1993.
Publisher:  Columbia University Press. 
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Frontmatter
Frontmatter
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One Women Workers and Early Industrialization
Chapter Two The Early Textile Industry and the Rise of Lowell
Chapter Three The Lowell Work Force, 1836, and the Social Origins of Women Workers
Chapter Four The Social Relations of Production in the Early Mills
Chapter Five The Boardinghouse
Chapter Six The Early Strikes: The 1830's
Chapter Seven The Ten Hour Movement: the 1840's
Chapter Eight 
Chapter Nine Immigrants in the Mills, 1850-1860
Chapter Ten housing and Families of Women Opeatives
Chapter Eleven Careers of Operatives 1836-1860
Chapter Twelve The Operatives Response
Appendixes
Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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Title: Women at work : the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 by Thomas Dublin.
Author: Dublin, Thomas, 1946-
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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Source Version: Women at work : the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 by Thomas Dublin. 
Dublin, Thomas, 1946-
New York: Columbia University Press, c1993.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00092
Subject Headings: • Women -- Employment -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History
• Textile workers -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History
• Cotton manufacture -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History
• Women textile workers -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History
• Lowell (Mass.) -- Social conditions
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