Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working DayOur Own Time provides the first full account of the movement to shorten the working day in the United States. Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial period onward. The authors argue that the length of the working day or week historically has been the central issue raised by the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of organization. |
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... Lowell as It Is and as It Was ( Lowell , 1845 ) , 194. Commons and Associates , Documentary History , 8 : 147 . 28. Ware , Cotton Manufacture , 266-67 . For a complete statistical account of the Hamilton Company firings , see Carl ...
... Lowell Offering , 5 ( October , 1845 ) , 217 . 39. McNeill , ed . , Labor Movement , 107. On “ lighting up " useful sources are Sumner , Women , 102 ; Shlakman , Economic History , 55 ; Whittier , Stranger , 116ff ; Bliss and Andrews ...
... Lowell Offering 1 ( 1840 ) , 25-26 ( first series ) . 55. Robinson , Loom and Spindle , 43-46 ; Katz , School Reform , 88 ; Ware , Cotton Manufacture , 201 ; and Lowell Offering 3 ( June 1843 ) . 56. Beecher is quoted in Josephson ...
Contents
Shorter Hours and the Transformation of American Labor | 19 |
Mill Women and the Working Day 18421850 | 43 |
Hours Labor Protest and Party Politics in the 1850s | 65 |
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