Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part I. Industrial Wage Work
6. The Economic Status of Women in the Early Republic: Quantitative Evidence 3
7. WOMEN, WORK, AND THE FAMILY: FEMALE OPERATIVES IN THE LOWELL MILLS, 1830-1860 33
8. WOMEN, WORK, AND PROTEST IN THE EARLY LOWELL MILLS: "THE OPPRESSING HAND OF AVARICE WOULD ENSLAVE US" 43
9. WORK, GENDER AND THE ARTISAN TRADITION IN NEW ENGLAND SHOEMAKING, 1780-1860 61
10. SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT THE WORKPLACE 89
11. Social Change and Women's Work and Family Experience in Ireland and the United States 122
12. MIGRANT WOMEN IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK 145
13. Female Labor Force Participation: The Origin of Black and White Differences, 1870 and 1880 164
14. "A Good Place to Work." Industrial Workers and Occupational Choice: The Case of Berkshire Women 186
15. "Honor Each Noble Maid": Women Workers and the Yonkers Carpet Weavers' Strike of 1885 208
16. THE UNION OF SEX AND CRAFT IN THE HAVERHILL SHOE STRIKE OF 1895 232
17. The Work and Wages of Single Women, 1870 to 1920 256
18. WOMEN'S WAGE WORK AS MYTH AND HISTORY 264
19. "WHERE ARE THE ORGANIZED WOMEN WORKERS?" 285
20. ORGANIZING THE UNORGANIZABLE: THREE JEWISH WOMEN AND THEIR UNION 304