Description: 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and Marblehead, 1860; Lynn, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910 329 Abbreviations 353 Notes 355 Bibliography of Primary and Unpublished Sources 425 Index 431

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