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Entangled lives : labor, livelihood, and landscapes of change in rural Massachusetts
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Entangled lives : labor, livelihood, and landscapes of change in rural Massachusetts / Marla R. Miller.
ISBN
9781421432748
1421432749
9781421432755
1421432757
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xxii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This is a localized study of social history about women who lived in the late eighteenth century in Hadley, Massachusetts. Specifically, it studies the work they did and how that work fit into the local economy. The author investigates the social openings and opportunities that work created for women, the vital place of women in the local economy, and the boundaries that women's work created."-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 11, 2020
Series
Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : placings
From Nolwotogg to Hadley
Women, work, and the business of gentility : the view from forty acres
Women, work, and 'economies of makeshift' : the view from the back street
Domestic service
Making cloth
Hospitality work
Healing and caregiving
Working women and the domestic landscapes of Forty Acres
New labor, new landscapes
Coda : remembering women and work.
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