"Their Own Work: Two Documents from the Nineteenth-Century Labor Movement"

by Vogel, Lise (1976)

Abstract

In 1846, Mehitable Eastman--a young woman leader of the Female Labour Reform Association in Manchester, New Hampshire--made a dramatic speech before a meeting of workers and reformers. Drawing on her experience of eight years as an "operative" (or worker) in the textile mills of northern New England, she exhorted her audience to determined action...

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Keywords

Servitude, History, Historical Context, Feminism, Feminist Movements, Gender, Gendered Labour, Nineteenth Century

Themes

History of Women and Work, Women and Work, Labour History, History of Work

Links to Reference

• https://doi.org/10.1086/493266
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/493266
• https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/493266

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