Working-Class Women in the Gilded Age : Factory, Community and Family Life among Cohoes, New York, Cotton Workers

Walkowitz, Daniel J.

An examination of industrial labor through the lenses of ethnicity and gender in 19th-century Cohoes, New York. From the text: "This essay intends to examine the ways in which the cultural experience of the predominantly immigrant working class might have distorted their view of their social conditions and impaired their ability to focus on the origins of their oppression. Consequently, working-class violence, rather than being directed at the manufacturer, was directed at the ranks of the unemployed ready to claim their jobs. In this way, the working class did not engage in aggressive violence to win a social revolution so much as it fought defensive struggles to protect its modest gains."

1972 summer

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Journal Article

1800-1900; Cohoes, New York

#4

Journal of Social History

0022-4529

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