From Fireside to Factory (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Meta Stern Lilienthal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330495012 ISBN 13 : 9781330495018

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

From fireside to factory: how colonial women helped forge America’s economy Discover how the daily work of colonial women went beyond the home and paved the path to modern industry. This book links households, crafts, and early labor movements to show how women moved from domestic producers to wage earners.

In colonial times, most women ran households that produced many goods the family needed. Their work extended from sewing and textiles to food, clothes, and crafts. The shift to industrial production changed women’s roles, wages, and opportunities, as machines and factories redefined the value of their labor.

The book traces the rise of ready-made clothing, the sewing trades, and the early shoe industry—explaining how social and economic forces turned home workers into city laborers. It also highlights the emergence of labor organizations and the growing push for equality and political rights.

• How early domestic manufacture shaped gender roles and community life


• The transition from home sewing to factory outfits and wage work


• The impact of machinery on women's work and wages


• The rise of labor groups and the fight for suffrage and equality

Ideal for readers interested in American history, women's studies, and the roots of the labor movement.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From Fireside to Factory THE SPINNING-WHEEL Few young men and women of the present generation are familiar with that old-time household implement, a spinning-wheel. Fewer still have ever seen a spinningwheel in action. For spinning-wheels, for the purpose of manufacture, are as obsolete as stage-coaches for the purpose of travel. Yet there was a time -and not so very long ago when a spinning-wheel was an essential necessity in every American homestead. There are old men and women living to-day who still remember, from their dim and distant childhood, how their mothers used to sit by the fire and spin, and much romance of the good, old days is associated with the spinning-wheel. It has received much attention in poetry also. Goethe, in his Faust, has drawn an immortal picture of Gretchen at her spinning-wheel. Longfellow, in his charming epic poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish, describes the sweet Puritan maiden, Priscilla, asS eated beside her wheel and the carded wool like a snowdrift piled at her knee, Her white hands feeding the ravenous spindle, while with her foot on the treadle she guided the wheel in its motion. The Bible, too, has extolled the virtuous woman of the spinning wheel in those beautiful lines: She seeketh the wool and the flax and worketh willingly with her hands. She layeth her hands to the distaff and her hands hold the spindle. She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original f

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330495012
• ISBN 13: 9781330495018
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 76
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