Author: National GrangePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Official Directory and History of Broome County Granges
Author: National GrangePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Bonds of Community
Author: Nancy Grey OsterudPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501729284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as well. Although they lacked control over land and were second-class citizens, these rural women did not occupy a "separate sphere." Individually and collectively, they responded to inequality by actively enlarging the dimensions of sharing in their relationships with men. Nancy Grey Osterud uses a rich store of diaries, letters, and other first-person documents, in addition to public and organizational records, to reconstruct the everyday lives of ordinary women of the past. Exploring large questions within the confines of a single community, she analyzes the ways in which notions of gender structured women's interactions with their families and neighbors, their place in the farm family economy, and their participation in organized community activities. Rare turn-of-the-century photographs of the rural landscape, formal and informal family portraits, and scenes of daily life and labor add a special dimension to Bonds of Community. It should find a ready audience among women's historians, labor historians, rural historians, and historians of New York State.
Putting the Barn Before the House
Author: Nancy Grey OsterudPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Putting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints of women born before World War I who lived on family farms in south-central New York. As she did in her previous book, Bonds of Community, for an earlier period in history, Grey Osterud explores the flexible and varied ways that families shared labor and highlights the strategies of mutuality that women adopted to ensure they had a say in family decision making. Sharing and exchanging work also linked neighboring households and knit the community together. Indeed, the culture of cooperation that women espoused laid the basis for the formation of cooperatives that enabled these dairy farmers to contest the power of agribusiness and obtain better returns for their labor. Osterud recounts this story through the words of the women and men who lived it and carefully explores their views about gender, labor, and power, which offered an alternative to the ideas that prevailed in American society. Most women saw "putting the barn before the house"—investing capital and labor in productive operations rather than spending money on consumer goods or devoting time to mere housework—as a necessary and rational course for families who were determined to make a living on the land and, if possible, to pass on viable farms to the next generation. Some women preferred working outdoors to what seemed to them the thankless tasks of urban housewives, while others worked off the farm to support the family. Husbands and wives, as well as parents and children, debated what was best and negotiated over how to allocate their limited labor and capital and plan for an uncertain future. Osterud tells the story of an agricultural community in transition amid an industrializing age with care and skill.
Strategies of Mutuality
Author: Nancy Grey OsterudPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
History of Broome County
Author: Henry Perry SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broome County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The Municipal corporations companion, diary, directory, and year book of statistics, ed. by J.R.S. Vine. [2nd]-11th, 13th year
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Author: sir John Richard Somers VinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The Empire State Granger
Author: Agricultural Leaders Directory, Empire State
Author: Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clinton County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York; Containing Its History from Its First Settlement, Together with Many Interesting Facts Concerning the Adjacent Towns
Author: James RikerPublisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781375845960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
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