Mary H Blewett
Biographic Data
| ID | 249934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary H Blewett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary H |
| FAMILY NAME | Blewett |
| SIGNATURE | BLEWETT M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Dynamics Of Labor Migration And Raw Materials Acquisition In The Transatlantic Worsted Trade, 1830–1930
European overseas migration grew massively between the middle of the nineteenth century and the First World War. This chapter identifies and describes one important counter-force on the supply side, a factor which explains why demand and supply did not meet before the late nineteenth century. The terror of distance was for long a major obstacle, and the price and effort to overcome that obstacle influenced the costs of migration. Already three ce…
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
The Needle's Eye
Book Review| September 01 2008 The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution Marla R. Miller Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006 xiv + 302 pp., $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Mary H. Blewett Mary H. Blewett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (3): 99–101. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2008-011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share…
A Common Thread
Diversities of Class and Gender Experience and the Shaping of Labor Politics
New evidence on gender and class reveals the diverse experiences of male and female workers in the worsted and in the rising silk plush industry in late nineteenth-century Bradford, Yorkshire and prompts a re-examination of the historiography surrounding the Manningham strike and labor politics. In the context of changing labor processes and the exclusionary policies of Yorkshire trade unionism, the striking velvet weavers in 1890–91 were develop…
Yorkshire Lasses and Their Lads
Fiction and historical tests carefully positioned in Anglo-American historiography provide new perspectives on the elusive world of female working-class sexuality. Working women are portrayed, not as victims or objects, but as active players in gender and class conflicts. Yorkshire lasses and older women used their sexuality to define their female adulthood through sexual experimentation during courtship, to discipline male aggressiveness and pat…
The Roots of American Industrialization (review)
Reviewed by: The Roots of American Industrialization Mary H. Blewett (bio) The Roots of American Industrialization. By David R. Meyer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+333. $45. Historical geographer David R. Meyer challenges the traditional interpretations of early industrialization, insisting that beginning in the 1790s a prosperous agricultural sector in the northeast both created capital and provided markets for early i…
Constant Turmoil
Mary H. Blewett, well established as a historian of labor and gender in New England history, has written a large book that continues her career-long exploration of these themes. She herself calls it, I presume affectionately, “the monster.” The book weighs in at about 1.1 kilograms, or 21⁄2 pounds, and is 521 densely packed pages long, including 80 pages of endnotes and an index. There are probably nearer a quarter of a million than two hundred t…
Constant Turmoil
Constant Turmoil
Immigration and Opportunity
Book Review| April 01 2001 Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity and Employment in the United States Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity and Employment in the United States, Frank D. Bean and Stephanie Bell Rose. Mary H. Blewett Mary H. Blewett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (3): 147–148. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502718 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
Constant Turmoil
Colliers across the Sea
A Very Social Time
Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and menboth white and blackn the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries, letters, and autobiographies brings their voices to life, making this study an extraordinary combination of historical research and sociological interpretation. Hansen challenges conventional notions that women were largely relegated to a private real…
The Struggle for the Breeches
Working Families
Journal Article Working Families: Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. By Bettina Bradbury. (Markham, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1993. 310 pp. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-7710-1622-0.) Get access Mary Blewett Mary Blewett University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 706–707, htt…
We Will Rise in Our Might
Deference and Defiance
We Will Rise in Our Might
Society and Economic Change
Social historians have long been criticized for ignoring partisan politics and state policy in their work. In response they have charged that political historians refuse to integrate social and cultural history or economic analysis into their interpretations. Charles Sellers's synthesis of early nineteenth-century America is an opportunity for both sides to assess the merits of an ambitious attempt to integrate the rich social and cultural histor…
Traditions and Customs of Lancashire Popular Radicalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial America
During a decade of constant turmoil in the 1870s, immigrant textile workers from Lancashire, England seized control of labor politics in the southern New England region of the United States. They were men and women who had immigrated in successive waves before and after the American Civil War to the United States, specifically to the textile cities of Fall River and New Bedford, Massachusetts and to the mill villages north of Providence, Rhode Is…
We Will Rise in Our Might
Journal Article We Will Rise in Our Might: Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England. By Mary H. Blewett. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xiv + 221 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-2246-9. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-8014-9537-7.) Get access Wendy Gamber Wendy Gamber Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1…
Community of Suffering and Struggle
The Last Generation
Journal Article The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910–1960. By Mary H. Blewett. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. xxii + 330 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $9.95.) Get access Mary J. Oates Mary J. Oates Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 711–7…
Men, Women, and Work
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Work, Gender and the Artisan Tradition in New England Shoemaking, 1780-1860
Journal Article Work, Gender and the Artisan Tradition in New England Shoemaking, 1780–1860 Get access Mary H. Blewett Mary H. Blewett University of Lowell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 17, Issue 2, Winter 1983, Pages 221–248, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/17.2.221 Published: 01 December 1983
Men, Women, and Work
Traditions and Customs of Lancashire Popular Radicalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial America
During a decade of constant turmoil in the 1870s, immigrant textile workers from Lancashire, England seized control of labor politics in the southern New England region of the United States. They were men and women who had immigrated in successive waves before and after the American Civil War to the United States, specifically to the textile cities of Fall River and New Bedford, Massachusetts and to the mill villages north of Providence, Rhode Is…
Diversities of Class and Gender Experience and the Shaping of Labor Politics
New evidence on gender and class reveals the diverse experiences of male and female workers in the worsted and in the rising silk plush industry in late nineteenth-century Bradford, Yorkshire and prompts a re-examination of the historiography surrounding the Manningham strike and labor politics. In the context of changing labor processes and the exclusionary policies of Yorkshire trade unionism, the striking velvet weavers in 1890–91 were develop…
Yorkshire Lasses and Their Lads
Fiction and historical tests carefully positioned in Anglo-American historiography provide new perspectives on the elusive world of female working-class sexuality. Working women are portrayed, not as victims or objects, but as active players in gender and class conflicts. Yorkshire lasses and older women used their sexuality to define their female adulthood through sexual experimentation during courtship, to discipline male aggressiveness and pat…
Deference and Defiance
Men, Women, and Work
Journal Article Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780–1910. By Mary H. Blewett. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xxii + 444 pp. $29.95.) Get access Gary Kulik Gary Kulik National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 246–247, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908394 Pu…
The union of sex and craft in the haverhill shoe strike of 1895
Women at Work
Work, Gender and the Artisan Tradition in New England Shoemaking, 1780-1860
Journal Article Work, Gender and the Artisan Tradition in New England Shoemaking, 1780–1860 Get access Mary H. Blewett Mary H. Blewett University of Lowell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 17, Issue 2, Winter 1983, Pages 221–248, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/17.2.221 Published: 01 December 1983
Women Shoeworkers and Domestic Ideology
IN February 1847, Ann Swett wrote to her sister Sarah from Manchester, New Hampshire, where she worked in a textile factory. To be a boarder with free time, she wrote, was grand. She had just pocketed four dollars for her first two weeks of work and was figuring her potential. Rejoicing over her newfound economic independence, Ann assured her sister that never again would she bind shoes as an outworker in her Haverhill, Massachusetts, home. Her p…
From Working Daughters to Working Mothers
Men, Women, and Work
Workers and Managers, 1780-1950
Men, Women, and Work
Men, Women, and Work
Journal Article Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780–1910. By Mary H. Blewett. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xxii + 444 pp. $29.95.) Get access Gary Kulik Gary Kulik National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 246–247, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908394 Pu…
Men, Women, and Work
Men, Women and Work
The Last Generation
Journal Article The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910–1960. By Mary H. Blewett. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. xxii + 330 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $9.95.) Get access Mary J. Oates Mary J. Oates Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 711–7…
Men, Women, and Work
Women, Work, and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England
Society and Economic Change
Social historians have long been criticized for ignoring partisan politics and state policy in their work. In response they have charged that political historians refuse to integrate social and cultural history or economic analysis into their interpretations. Charles Sellers's synthesis of early nineteenth-century America is an opportunity for both sides to assess the merits of an ambitious attempt to integrate the rich social and cultural histor…
Traditions and Customs of Lancashire Popular Radicalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial America
During a decade of constant turmoil in the 1870s, immigrant textile workers from Lancashire, England seized control of labor politics in the southern New England region of the United States. They were men and women who had immigrated in successive waves before and after the American Civil War to the United States, specifically to the textile cities of Fall River and New Bedford, Massachusetts and to the mill villages north of Providence, Rhode Is…
We Will Rise in Our Might
Journal Article We Will Rise in Our Might: Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England. By Mary H. Blewett. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xiv + 221 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-2246-9. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-8014-9537-7.) Get access Wendy Gamber Wendy Gamber Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1…
Community of Suffering and Struggle
Deference and Defiance
We Will Rise in Our Might
Working Families
Journal Article Working Families: Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. By Bettina Bradbury. (Markham, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1993. 310 pp. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-7710-1622-0.) Get access Mary Blewett Mary Blewett University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 706–707, htt…
We Will Rise in Our Might
A Very Social Time
Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and menboth white and blackn the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries, letters, and autobiographies brings their voices to life, making this study an extraordinary combination of historical research and sociological interpretation. Hansen challenges conventional notions that women were largely relegated to a private real…
The Struggle for the Breeches
Constant Turmoil
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (25 works) · History (22 works) · Law (19 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · History (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Engineering (12 works) · American History and Culture (11 works)