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- catalog abstract ""In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this innovative and comparative study examines the migrants' lives by addressing their reasons for migration, their relationship to their families, the roles they played in the cities to which they moved, and the dangers they met as a result of their youth, gender, separation from family. Gordon details both the similarities and differences in the women's migration experiences, and somewhat surprisingly concludes that they became financially independent, rather than primarily contributors to a family economy."--Jacket.".
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- catalog contributor b12612666.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this innovative and comparative study examines the migrants' lives by addressing their reasons for migration, their relationship to their families, the roles they played in the cities to which they moved, and the dangers they met as a result of their youth, gender, separation from family.".
- catalog description "1: Transitions in the city: independent female migration, 1850-1881 -- Single female migrants in historical perspectives -- 2: Preston: the unseen migrants -- Migrants and domestic service in Preston -- The migrant's economy -- 3: Lowell: the mill girls -- Migrants and the textile industry in Lowell -- The migrant's society -- A desire to see the city -- The migrant's independence -- 4: Paisley: the strangers and the maids -- Migrants and domestic service in Paisley -- Migrants and bleaching in Paisley -- Accommodating independent migrants -- The migrant's economy -- To prosecute her claim -- Personal migration patterns -- Migrants at risk -- 5: Comparisons: the migrants -- Beside themselves -- Statistical methodology.".
- catalog description "Gordon details both the similarities and differences in the women's migration experiences, and somewhat surprisingly concludes that they became financially independent, rather than primarily contributors to a family economy."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-230) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 234 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0791455254 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791455262 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog spatial "England Preston (Lancashire)".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Lowell".
- catalog spatial "Scotland Paisley".
- catalog subject "305.43/677 21".
- catalog subject "HD6073.T42 G692 2002".
- catalog subject "Women migrant labor Employment Scotland Paisley History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women migrant labor England Preston (Lancashire) History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women migrant labor Massachusetts Lowell History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women textile workers England Preston (Lancashire) History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women textile workers Massachusetts Lowell History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women textile workers Scotland Paisley History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1: Transitions in the city: independent female migration, 1850-1881 -- Single female migrants in historical perspectives -- 2: Preston: the unseen migrants -- Migrants and domestic service in Preston -- The migrant's economy -- 3: Lowell: the mill girls -- Migrants and the textile industry in Lowell -- The migrant's society -- A desire to see the city -- The migrant's independence -- 4: Paisley: the strangers and the maids -- Migrants and domestic service in Paisley -- Migrants and bleaching in Paisley -- Accommodating independent migrants -- The migrant's economy -- To prosecute her claim -- Personal migration patterns -- Migrants at risk -- 5: Comparisons: the migrants -- Beside themselves -- Statistical methodology.".
- catalog title "Mill girls and strangers : single women's independent migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881 / Wendy M. Gordon.".
- catalog type "text".