From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community
by Lamphere, Louise
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0801494419
- ISBN 13
- 9780801494413
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About This Item
Ithaca and London: Passport Books, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in VERY GOOD + Condition. Clean, glossy, blue card cover with white and black titles with faint wear to bottom front corner. Sound binding, square and tight. Pages very clean and free from any markings. Two maps, five figures, twenty-one tables, many photographs throughout. An important contribution to the new scholarship on working women, this book combines ethnographic research with detailed historical research to present a work-centered social history of women's work, family and community lives. Part I: Provides a theoretical framework; Part II: Working Daughters and Economic Expansion, 1790-1940, deals with working daughters, immigrants and the Textile-Mill economy, ethnic neighborhoods, the decline of the textile industry and women's resistance; Part III: Working Mothers, 1940-1980. xviii,390 pages with bibliography and index. 9 x 6 inches. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1987.
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- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community
- Author
- Lamphere, Louise
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0801494419
- ISBN 13
- 9780801494413
- Publisher
- Passport Books
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca and London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- ANTHROPOLOGY WOMEN'S STUDIES IMMIGRANTS TEXTILE MILLS INDUSTRY
- X weight
- 0 oz
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