Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
"Blewett challenges historians to incorporate gender analysis and
a tradition of working women's protest into the history of the American
labor movement."
-- Georgia Historical Quarterly
" Blewett's] detailed reconstruction of feminist perspectives in
shoeworker protest and the divisions created by the competing loyalties
to sisterhood and to working-class families is among the best available.
. . . With works like this, it should be impossible to write about the
American working class without including women."
-- Historical Journal of Massachusetts
"A highly stimulating and rewarding book."
-- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Synopsis
Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.