Work and labor in early America / edited by Stephen Innes.

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TextSeries: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaPublication details: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1988.Description: 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469600697
1469600692

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

331/.0973 19

LOC classification:

HD8070 .W67 1988

Other classification:

15.85

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Contents:

Introduction: 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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