Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. One. Factory Fictions 33
6. Two. Factory Labor and Literary Aesthetics 73
7. Three. Narrating Female Dependency 113
8. Four. Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig and the Labor of Race 153
9. Five. Hidden Hands 180
10. Six. Writing Mexicana Workers 219
11. Postscript. Looking for Antebellum Workingwomen 247
12. Notes 251
13. Works Cited 285
14. Index 303