Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration

Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration
ISBN-10
0195327810
ISBN-13
9780195327816
Category
History
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
2008-01-30
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Sylvia J. Cook

Description

This book explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labor and into opportunities for mental and literary development. It traces the hopes and tensions generated by expectations of their gender and class from the first New England operatives in the early nineteenth century to immigrant sweatshop workers in the early twentieth.

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