Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, for the Year Ending May 1, 1865
Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, for the Year Ending ...
Author: Massachusetts. Secretary of the CommonwealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, for the Years ...
Author: Massachusetts. Secretary of the CommonwealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Fertility in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War
Author: Maris A. VinovskisPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 148326601X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Fertility in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War focuses on the socioeconomic determinants of fertility differentials and trends in Massachusetts from 1765 to 1860. The book provides useful insights into the nature of the development of Massachusetts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics covered in the text include analysis of the differentials and trends in white fertility ratios at the national, regional, and state levels; differentials and trends in mortality rates in Massachusetts; impact of land scarcity and the role of urbanization and industrialization on fertility; relationship between modernization and changes in fertility in Massachusetts; and the correlation of the decline of fertility in the West with the situation in developing countries. Demographers, sociologists, historians, researchers, and economists will find the book interesting.
Transforming Women's Work
Author: Thomas L. DublinPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
"I am not living upon my friends or doing housework for my board but am a factory girl," asserted Anna Mason in the early 1850s. Although many young women who worked in the textile mills found that the industrial revolution brought greater independence to their lives, most working women in nineteenth-century New England did not, according to Thomas Dublin. Sketching engaging portraits of women's experience in cottage industries, factories, domestic service, and village schools, Dublin demonstrates that the autonomy of working women actually diminished as growing numbers lived with their families and contributed their earnings to the household. From diaries, letters, account books, and censuses, Dublin reconstructs employment patterns across the century as he shows how wage work increasingly came to serve the needs of families, rather than of individual women. He first examines the case of rural women engaged in the cottage industries of weaving and palm-leaf hatmaking between 1820 and 1850. Next, he compares the employment experiences of women in the textile mills of Lowell and the shoe factories of Lynn. Following a discussion of Boston working women in the middle decades of the century-particularly domestic servants and garment workers-Dublin turns his attention to the lives of women teachers in three New Hampshire towns.
Remaking Boston
Author: Anthony N. PennaPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822977680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Since its settlement in 1630, Boston, its harbor, and outlying regions have witnessed a monumental transformation at the hands of humans and by nature. Remaking Boston chronicles many of the events that altered the physical landscape of Boston, while also offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the environmental history of one of America's oldest and largest metropolitan areas. Situated on an isthmus, and blessed with a natural deepwater harbor and ocean access, Boston became an important early trade hub with Europe and the world. As its population and economy grew, developers extended the city's shoreline into the surrounding tidal mudflats to create more useable land. Further expansion of the city was achieved through the annexation of surrounding communities, and the burgeoning population and economy spread to outlying areas. The interconnection of city and suburb opened the floodgates to increased commerce, services and workforces, while also leaving a wake of roads, rails, bridges, buildings, deforestation, and pollution. Profiling this ever-changing environment, the contributors tackle a variety of topics, including: the glacial formation of the region; physical characteristics and composition of the land and harbor; dredging, sea walling, flattening, and landfill operations in the reshaping of the Shawmut Peninsula; the longstanding controversy over the link between landfills and shoaling in shipping channels; population movements between the city and suburbs and their environmental implications; interdependence of the city and its suburbs; preservation and reclamation of the Charles River; suburban deforestation and later reforestation as byproducts of changing land use; the planned outlay of parks and parkways; and historic climate changes and the human and biological adaptations to them.
Yankee Destinies
Author: Peter R. KnightsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two cross-sections of those viewed by contemporaries as "typical" Bostonians. Using a broad array of sources--manuscript census returns; tax assessments; city directories; birth, marriage, and death records for more than twenty states; cemetery records; newspapers; and family genealogies--Peter Knights traced these men not only back to their origins in hundreds of small New England towns but also (for those who left) onward from Boston. He determined changes in their occupations and wealth and after they arrived in Boston, the fates of their marriages, their production of children, and--in all but seventy cases--their deaths and the causes thereof. The result is a comprehensive quantitative study of important aspects of the lives of what are probably the largest sample population groups for any North American community.
The Know-Nothing Party in Massachusetts
Author: John R. MulkernPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555530716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Every Day But Sunday
Author: Jennie F. CopelandPublisher: Blue Mustang Press
ISBN: 9780975973714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Every Day But Sunday: The Romantic Age of New England Industry is the story of America when rugged individualism was in full swing. the nineteenth-century industrialist, whether he made soap, tacks, or plows, stamped his peronality upon the small organization he controlled. Therefore the story of this romantic age of industry is a story of individuals -- of men who were rugged, shrewd, and daring. The author has taken a typical New England town -- Mansfield, Massachusetts -- from the beginning to the close of the 19th century and conujures up for us the ramshackle factories, the honest products, and the shrewd proprietors.
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