عنوان

Mill girls and strangers :

(Number (ISBN

0585491380

(Number (ISBN

0791455254

(Number (ISBN

0791455262

(Number (ISBN

0791487822

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9780585491387

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9780791455258

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9780791455265

(Number (ISBN

9780791487822

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b772048

Title Proper

Mill girls and strangers :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

single women's independent migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Wendy M. Gordon.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 234 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.

Text of Note

"In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this innovative and comparative study examines the migrants' lives by addressing their reasons for migration, their relationship to their families, the roles they played in the cities to which they moved, and the dangers they met as a result of their youth, gender, separation from family. Gordon details both the similarities and differences in the women's migration experiences, and somewhat surprisingly concludes that they became financially independent, rather than primarily contributors to a family economy."--Jacket.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

00025125

Title

Mill girls and strangers.

International Standard Book Number

0791455254

Women migrant labor-- Employment-- Scotland-- Paisley-- History-- 19th century.

Women migrant labor-- England-- Preston (Lancashire)-- History-- 19th century.

Women migrant labor-- Massachusetts-- Lowell-- History-- 19th century.

Women textile workers-- England-- Preston (Lancashire)-- History-- 19th century.

Women textile workers-- Massachusetts-- Lowell-- History-- 19th century.

Women textile workers-- Scotland-- Paisley-- History-- 19th century.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Women's Studies.

Women migrant labor.

Women textile workers.

England, Preston (Lancashire)

Massachusetts, Lowell.

Scotland, Paisley.

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SOC-- 028000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Gordon, Wendy M.,1967-

Date of Transaction

20201206175202.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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