Women and Children of the Mills: An Annotated Guide to Nineteenth-Century American Textile Factory Literature (Hardcover)

Preface Women Leaving Home: Work, Independence, Women's Rights Minds among the Spindles: Workers' Education and Writing Offerings and Voices: Periodicals of Women's Work Only a Factory Worker: Representing Class Means of Escape: Romances and Mysteries Blighted and Deceived: Dangerous Desires and Women's Wrongs Scenes of Factory Village Life Working Children Wondrous Machines: Responses to Technology Occupational Hazards: Stress, Disease, Accidents, Fires Laborer's Remonstrances: Speaking Out against Oppression Strikes and Other Organized Protest Anti-Strike Fiction Charity and Reform Bibliography Appendices Index