Working-Class Women in the Gilded Age : Factory, Community and Family Life among Cohoes, New York, Cotton Workers
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Title
Working-Class Women in the Gilded Age : Factory, Community and Family Life among Cohoes, New York, Cotton Workers
Description
An examination of industrial labor through the lenses of ethnicity and gender in 19th-century Cohoes, New York. From the text: "This essay intends to examine the ways in which the cultural experience of the predominantly immigrant working class might have distorted their view of their social conditions and impaired their ability to focus on the origins of their oppression. Consequently, working-class violence, rather than being directed at the manufacturer, was directed at the ranks of the unemployed ready to claim their jobs. In this way, the working class did not engage in aggressive violence to win a social revolution so much as it fought defensive struggles to protect its modest gains."
Creator
Walkowitz, Daniel J.
Date
1972 summer
Language
en
Type
Journal Article
Identifier
Coverage
1800-1900; Cohoes, New York
Contribution Form
Online Submission
No
Zotero
ISSN
0022-4529
Issue
#4
Pages
464-490
Publication Title
Journal of Social History
Volume
5