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Women of the commonwealth : work, family, and social change in nineteenth-century Massachusetts

Author: Susan L Porter
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
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Women of the commonwealth.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1996
(OCoLC)654810802
Material Type: Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Susan L Porter
ISBN: 1558490051 9781558490055 1558490043 9781558490048
OCLC Number: 32665535
Notes: Papers presented at a symposium at Westfield State College in October 1992.
Description: viii, 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Victorian values in the marketplace : single women and work in Boston, 1800-1850 / Susan L. Porter --
The feminization of teaching in Massachusetts : a reconsideration / James M. Wallace --
Étre à l'ouvrage ou étre maitresse de maison : French-Canadian women and work in late nineteenth-century Massachusetts / Paul R. Dauphinais --
Good men and "working girls" : the bureau of statistics of labor, 1870-1900 / Henry F. Bedford --
The gendered foundations of social work education in Boston, 1904-1930 / Linda M. Shoemaker --
Caroline Healey Dall : her creation and reform career / Nancy Bowman --
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin : a nineteenth-century journalist of Boston's Black elite class / Rodger Streitmatter --
Julia Harrington Duff and the political awakening of Irish-American women in Boston, 1888-1905 / Polly Welts Kaufman --
"The simplest of New England spinsters" : becoming Emily Greene Balch, 1867-1961 / Patricia A. Palmieri --
Beyond servants and salesgirls : working women's education in Boston, 1885-1915 / Laurie Crumpacker.
Responsibility: edited by Susan L. Porter.

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