Men, Women, and Work

Acknowledgments   xi
Introduction   xiii
CHAPTER ONE   Origins of the Sexual Division of Labor, 1750-1810   3
CHAPTER TWO   The Rise of Early Labor Protest, 1810-37   20
CHAPTER THREE   The Social Relations of Production in the Rural Outwork System, 1837-45   44
CHAPTER FOUR   Women and the Artisan Tradition   68
CHAPTER FIVE   The Early Factory System and the New England Shoe Strike of 1860   97
CHAPTER SIX   Crispin Protest in the Post-Civil War Shoe Factory   142
CHAPTER SEVEN   Hard Times and Equal Rights, 1873-80   191
CHAPTER EIGHT   New England Shoeworkers and the Knights of Labor   221
CHAPTER NINE   Militancy and Disintegration, 1892-1910   267
Conclusion   320

APPENDIX A   The Accounts of Charles Fisher, 1837, and William Peabody, 1835   326
APPENDIX B   The U.S. Census of Population: Lynn, Haverhill, and Marblehead, 1860; Lynn, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910   329
Abbreviations   353
Notes   355
Bibliography of Primary and Unpublished Sources   425
Index   431