Contributor
Gutman, Herbert G. (Herbert George), 1928-1985.
Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1987.
Descriptionxvi, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Papers presented at a conference held March 1979 at Smith College.
Note:Part One. PERSONALITY: LIFE HISTORIES AND ARTISAN CULTURE AND BEHAVIOR: 1. George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840): a Boston shoemaker and the memory of the American Revolution / Alfred F. Young -- 2. "The world's dread laugh": singlehood and service in 19th-century Boston / Carol Lasser -- Part Two. WORK: CHANGING PATTERNS OF FACTORY LIFE AND LABOR: 3. The social system of early New England textile mills: a case study, 1812-40 / Jonathan Prude -- 4. Workers' control in the 19th-century hattig industry / David Bensman -- 5. Dilution and craft tradition: munitions workers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1915-19 / Cecelia Bucki -- Part Three. FAMILY: WORKING MEN AND WOMEN INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE FAMILY: 6. The transformation of family and community culture in immigrant neighborhoods, 1900-1940 / Judith E. Smith -- Part Four. CULTURE: LIFE-STYLES AND PRACTICES OUTSIDE THE WORKSHOP AND FACTORY: 7. Dams, fish, and farmers: the defense of public rights in 18th-century Rhode Island / Gary Kulik -- 8. Middle-class parks and working-class play: the struggle over recreational space in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1870-1910 / Roy Rosenzweig -- Part Five: POLITICS: WORKERS, OLD POLITICAL FORMS, NEW ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, AND IDEOLOGIES: 9. Unemployment and the labor movement in Massachusetts, 1870-1916 / Alexander Keyssar -- 10. Politics as social history: a case study of class conflict and political development in 19th-century New England / Leon Fink -- 11. Italian-American radicals and labor in Rhode Island, 1905-1930 / Paul Buhle.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies.
