by Thomas Dublin · Columbia University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780231946544
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«Women at Work» is Thomas Dublin's essay on social and economic history, published by Columbia University Press in hardback (322 pages, in English).
The book analyses the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts, between 1826 and 1860, focusing on women workers. It studies the beginnings of the textile industry, strikes, immigration in the factories, and the housing and families of the female workers, within the labour and social history of women in the nineteenth century.
The work bears the subtitle The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 and was originally published in 1979.
It will interest those studying labour and social history of women, as well as nineteenth-century American industrialisation.
