Work and labor in early America
| Other Authors: | Innes, Stephen., Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press,
[1988]
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| Physical Description: |
297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction:
- Fulfilling John Smith's vision: work and labor in early America /Stepehen Innes
- Working the fields in a developing economy: Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1675 /Daniel Vickers
- Martha Ballard and her girls: women's work in eighteenth-century Maine /Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Rural labor and the farm household in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1820 /Paul G.E. Clemens and Lucy Simler
- Economic diversification and the labor organization in the Chesapeake, 1650-1820 /Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh
- Task and gang systems: the organization of labor on new world plantations /Philip D. Morgan
- The vicissitudes of fortune: the careers of laboring men in Philadelphia, 1750-1800 /Billy G. Smith
- The Anglo-American seaman as collective worker, 1700-1750 /Marcus Rediker.