Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
CHAPTER ONE Origins of the Sexual Division of Labor, 1750-1810 3
CHAPTER TWO The Rise of Early Labor Protest, 1810-37 20
CHAPTER THREE The Social Relations of Production in the Rural Outwork System, 1837-45 44
CHAPTER FOUR Women and the Artisan Tradition 68
CHAPTER FIVE The Early Factory System and the New England Shoe Strike of 1860 97
CHAPTER SIX Crispin Protest in the Post-Civil War Shoe Factory 142
CHAPTER SEVEN Hard Times and Equal Rights, 1873-80 191
CHAPTER EIGHT New England Shoeworkers and the Knights of Labor 221
CHAPTER NINE Militancy and Disintegration, 1892-1910 267
Conclusion 320
APPENDIX A The Accounts of Charles Fisher, 1837, and William Peabody, 1835 326
APPENDIX B The U.S. Census of Population: Lynn, Haverhill, and Marblehead, 1860; Lynn, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910 329
Abbreviations 353
Notes 355
Bibliography of Primary and Unpublished Sources 425
Index 431
