Farm to Factory

Women'S Letters, 1830-1860

By: Thomas Dublin (Editor)

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Paperback | 27 May 1993 | Edition Number 2

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217 Pages

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22+

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1.51 x 2.28 x 0.18

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Between 1820 and 1860, tens of thousands of single women streamed from rural New England to find work in the burgeoning factory towns of the region. In "Farm to Factory" Thomas Dublin has selected five sets of letters in order to provide a personal view of the first generation of American women employed for wages outside their own homes. The letters he has selected provide a unique perspective on early industrial capitalism and its effects on women.

The second edition of what has become a classic work contains a new introduction, placing the women's correspondence in the context of broader economic developments in early-nineteenth-century New England, and a new set of letters written by Emeline Larcom from Lowell, Massachusetts. Like thos in the first edition, these letters will lure you back in time, offering a broadened view of women's lives in the nineteenth century.

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Adds an important human dimension to our understanding of early American industrialization. Library Journal "Farm to Factory" is an attractive addition to the literature. Dublin has collected a series of respresentative letters, not published before. The letters...are often very touching." Boston Globe Thomas Dublin has mad a valuable contribution to the history of American women with this engrossing collection of letters of New England millworkers of the antebellum era... [The letters] put flesh and blood on the era's quantitative data, balance the male-dominated picture of early industrial capitalism, and show that mill employment encouraged the social, cultural, and economic independence of women." Radcliffe Quarterly "Farm to Factory" will attract students to the lives of the women of the past, not only because it contains revealing documents, but because the documents are introduced and displayed with extraordinary sensitivity and intelligence." International Labor and Working Class History

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