Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (Working Class in American History)

Blewett, Mary H.

ISBN 10: 025206142X / ISBN 13: 9780252061424

Published by University of Illinois Press, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (Working Class in American History)
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 025206142X
• ISBN 13: 9780252061424
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.

About the Author

Mary H. Blewett is a professor emerita of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her books include The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960, and Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England.