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Work and labor in early Americaedited by Stephen Innes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)1988.Description: 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469600697
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD8070 .W675 1988
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Contents:
-- Fulfilling John Smith's vision: work and labor in early America / Stepehen Innes -- Working the fields in a developing economy: Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1675 / Daniel Vickers -- Martha Ballard and her girls: women's work in eighteenth-century Maine / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Rural labor and the farm household in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1820 / Paul G.E. Clemens and Lucy Simler -- Economic diversification and the labor organization in the Chesapeake, 1650-1820 / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh -- Task and gang systems: the organization of labor on new world plantations / Philip D. Morgan -- The vicissitudes of fortune: the careers of laboring men in Philadelphia, 1750-1800 / Billy G. Smith -- The Anglo-American seaman as collective worker, 1700-1750 / Marcus Rediker.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

-- Fulfilling John Smith's vision: work and labor in early America / Stepehen Innes -- Working the fields in a developing economy: Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1675 / Daniel Vickers -- Martha Ballard and her girls: women's work in eighteenth-century Maine / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Rural labor and the farm household in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1820 / Paul G.E. Clemens and Lucy Simler -- Economic diversification and the labor organization in the Chesapeake, 1650-1820 / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh -- Task and gang systems: the organization of labor on new world plantations / Philip D. Morgan -- The vicissitudes of fortune: the careers of laboring men in Philadelphia, 1750-1800 / Billy G. Smith -- The Anglo-American seaman as collective worker, 1700-1750 / Marcus Rediker.

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