{"product_id":"men-women-and-work-9780252061424","title":"Men Women and Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1989 Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1989.  Winner of the New England Historical Association Book Award, 1989.  Co-winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, 1989.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Blewett challenges historians to incorporate gender analysis and a tradition of working women's protest into the history of the American labor movement.\"--\u003ci\u003eGeorgia Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Blewett's] detailed reconstruction of feminist perspectives in shoeworker protest and the divisions created by the competing loyalties to sisterhood and to working-class families is among the best available . . . With works like this, it should be impossible to write about the American working class without including women.\"-- \u003ci\u003eHistorical Journal of Massachusetts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly stimulating and rewarding book.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   xiii\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER ONE   Origins of the Sexual Division of Labor, 1750-1810   3\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER TWO   The Rise of Early Labor Protest, 1810-37   20\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER THREE   The Social Relations of Production in the Rural Outwork System, 1837-45   44\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER FOUR   Women and the Artisan Tradition   68\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER FIVE   The Early Factory System and the New England Shoe Strike of 1860   97\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER SIX   Crispin Protest in the Post-Civil War Shoe Factory   142\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER SEVEN   Hard Times and Equal Rights, 1873-80   191\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER EIGHT   New England Shoeworkers and the Knights of Labor   221\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER NINE   Militancy and Disintegration, 1892-1910   267\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion   320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e APPENDIX A   The Accounts of Charles Fisher, 1837, and William Peabody, 1835   326\u003cbr\u003e APPENDIX B   The U.S. Census of Population: Lynn, Haverhill, and Marblehead, 1860; Lynn, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910   329\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations   353\u003cbr\u003e Notes   355\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography of Primary and Unpublished Sources   425\u003cbr\u003e Index   431","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400462016855,"sku":"9780252061424","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252061424.jpg?v=1730470739","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/men-women-and-work-9780252061424","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}