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2 books match the query 'Blewett, Mary H.'
Men, Women, and Work
Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910Mary H. Blewett
University of Illinois Press, 1988
Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.
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The Last Generation
Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960Mary H. Blewett
University of Massachusetts Press, 1990
Oral histories of many of the last generation of Lowell, MA, textile mill workers preceded by two introductory sections. The first presents the historic setting of economic development and subsequent decline of the textile industry in Lowell. The second is a brief explanation of the production process wherein the last generation of mill workers expended so many of their skills and so much of their energy.
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