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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Tables IX
5. Illustrations XV
6. A Note on Quotations XVIII
7. Chapter One. Women Workers and Early Industrialization 1
8. Chapter Two. The Early Textile Industry and the Rise of Lowell 14
9. Chapter Three. The Lowell Work Force, 1836, and the Social Origins of Women Workers 23
10. Chapter Four. The Social Relations of Production in the Early Mills 58
11. Chapter Five. The Boardinghouse 75
12. Chapter Five. The Boardinghouse 86
13. Chapter Seven. The Ten Hour Movement: The 1840s 108
14. Chapter Eight. The Transformation of Lowell, 1836-1850, and the New Mill Work Force 132
15. Chapter Nine. Immigrants in the Mills, 1850-1860 145
16. Chapter Ten. Housing and Families of Women Operatives 165
17. Chapter Eleven. Careers of Operatives, 1836-1860 183
18. Chapter Twelve. The Operatives' Response, 1850-1860 198
19. Appendix 1. Preparation of the Hamilton Company Payroll 1836 209
20. Appendix 2. The Social Origins Study 219
21. Appendix 3. The Hamilton Company Work Force, August 1850 and June 1860 224
22. Appendix 4. The 1860 Millhand Sample 230
23. Appendix 5. Sources of Bias and Considerations of Representativeness 239
24. Abbreviations 251
25. Notes 253
26. Selected Bibliography 293
27. Index 309