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52. Historians at Work

Author

Valenze, Deborah, primary, Baron, Ava, additional, Blewett, Mary H., additional, Lown, Judy, additional, and Rose, Sonya O., additional

Published
1992
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59. THE UNION OF SEX IN THE HAVERHILL SHOE STRIKE OF 1895.

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
*STRIKES & lockouts, *EMPLOYMENT discrimination, *WOMEN employees, *SEX discrimination against women, *UNSKILLED labor, *SHOE industry, *LABOR unions, *PUBLIC demonstrations, *INDUSTRIAL relations
Abstract

Female industrial labor is generally understood to have been unskilled, low-wage, young, unmarried, living with their families and foreign-born or of foreign parentage in the late nineteenth century in the U.S. Women in the shoe industry in eastern Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York established a long history of union and strike activity beginning in the 1830s. The women workers in the shoe industry depended strongly on a linkage between sex and craft to provide a power base for their unions. The women who led the strike action also led efforts by the community of Haverhill to resist changes in its factory system and in its relationship with the native-born shoe workers. Their militant support for an industry-wide federation of crafts was reinforced by an unusual pattern of geographical mobility for a female work force, a mobility shaped by the economic requirements of an extremely seasonal industry. The work in the shoe industry was highly sex-typed. No women worked as cutters, lasters, or bottomers, a very few men worked as vampers, attracted by the wages, and a few women worked as finishers, trimmers and packers.

Published
1979
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74. Women at work.

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
Women At Work (Book) -- Book reviews, Books
Published
1981

75. Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States./An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant/New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945.

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
*NONFICTION
Abstract

A review is presented for the books "Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States," by Raymond L. Cohn, "An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant," by M. E. Ravage, edited by Steven G. Kellman, and "A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945," by Nancy C. Carnevale.

Published
2011
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77. Reviews.

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
RELIGION & the Working Class in Antebellum America (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America,' by Jama Lazerow.

Published
1996

78. Reviews.

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
TRANSFORMING Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution,' by Thomas Dublin.

Published
1995

79. Reviews.

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
FIGURED Tapestry (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Figured Tapestry: Production, markets, and power in Philadelphia textiles, 1885-1941,' by Philip Scranton.

Published
1991

81. Reviews of Books: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
*WOMEN
Abstract

Reviews the book `In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century,' by Catherine E. Kelly.

Published
2001

82. Immigration and Opportunity (Book Review).

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
*EMIGRATION & immigration, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity and Employment in the United States,' edited by Frank D. Bean and Stephanie Bell Rose.

Published
2001
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83. Labor Histories (Book Review).

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
LABOR Histories (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience,' by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene and Bruce Laurie.

Published
2000

85. Most Wonderful Machine (Book Review).

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
*INDUSTRIALIZATION, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Most Wonderful Machine. Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885,' by Judith A. McGaw.

Published
1988

86. City of Women (Book Review).

Author

Blewett, Mary H.

Subjects
*WOMEN, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'City of Women. Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860,' by Christine Stansell.

Published
1988

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