Women at work: the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860

Women Workers and Early Industrialization

The Early Textile Industry and the Rise

of Lowell

The Lowell Work Force, 1836, and the Social Origins of Women Workers

The Social Relations of Production in the Early Mills

The Boardinghouse

The Early Strikes: The 1830s

The Ten Hour Movement: The 1840s

The Transformation of Lowell, 1836-1850,and the New Mill Work Force Immigrants in the Mills, 1850-1860

Housing and Families of Women Operative

Careers of Operatives, 1836-1860

The Operatives' Response, 1850-1860 APPENDIXES 1. Preparation of the Hamilton Company Payroll, 1836 2. The Social Origins Study 3. The Hamilton Company Work Force, August 1850 and June 1860 4. The 1860 Millhand Sample 5. Sources of Bias and Considerations of Representativeness.