Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: The Industrialization of Shoe Production in Nineteenth-Century New England 1
6. Part I. Women Shoeworkers in the Household AND Early Factory, 1780-1860
7. Introduction 21
8. 1. Family Labor on Shoes 23
9. 2. The Outwork System 30
10. 3. Outbreaks of Early Labor Protest 36
11. 4. Women Workers and Artisan Protest 49
12. 5. Mechanization and the Early Factory System 66
13. 6. The New England Shoe Strike of i860 76
14. Part II. Work and Protest in the Post-Civil War Factory, 1865-1910
15. Introduction 87
16. 7. The Factory Girl as Moral Lady 90
17. 8. The Daughters of St. Crispin 106
18. 9. Workingwomen and the Women’s Rights Movement 122
19. 10. Married Women in the Shoe Shops: A Debate 140
20. 11. Labor Protest and the Nature of Womanhood 145
21. 12. The Persistence of Homework 151
22. 13. Lady Knights of Labor 156
23. 14. Trade Union Women 177
24. 15. The Crisis of Sisterhood 201
25. Selected Bibliography 217
26. Index 219