Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308).
Contents
""CONTENTS""; ""ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE""; ""1 Gender, culture, and labour recruitment""; ""2 The politics of protection""; ""3 When is knitting women's work?""; ""4 Domesticity and mill families""; ""5 Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath""; ""PART TWO""; ""6 As Christ the carpenter""; ""7 Manliness, craftsmanship, and scientific management""; ""8 For men and girls: the politics and experience of gendered wage work""; ""9 Single fellows and family men""; ""10 Union men""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTE ON METHOD""; ""NOTES""; ""PICTURE CREDITS""