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Farm to Factory
from: Columbia University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.487700974
EAN: 9780231081573
Edition: 2
ISBN: 023108157X
Label: Columbia University Press
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 217
Publication Date: April 15, 1993
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Studio: Columbia University Press
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Editorial Review:Letters by five 19th-century New England women, among the tens of thousands who formed the first generation of American women employed for wages outside their own homes.
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Rating:  - Letters Tell the Story
Farm to Factory is a collection of letters written between young girls and their family and friends while they lived at factory run mills. The letters are insightful and give a new meaning to the place of young women in the early workforce of America. The girls selected talk of how they spend the little extra money they have, what their living conditions are like, what they do with their little free time, if they help support their family, how they help other family members find work, how they ... Read More
Rating:  - Good, but it can be boring at times
Dublin's Farm to Factory contains real, unedited letters about 19th century factory girls in Massachusets and New Hampshire. The book provides great insight on the daily lives of these women, and how many were torn on becoming independent and working for themselves and staying home with their families. Lowell, Mass. becaming a largely industraial city because of these women. The book also shows how women were just one source of cheap labor at the time and how they were not always treated fairly ... Read More
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