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