History of Women in the United States / Volume 5/1 / The Intersection of Work and Family Life

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Intersection of Work and Family Life -- ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION AND THE POSITION OF WOMEN AMONG THE IROQUOIS -- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY -- the lady and the mill girl: changes in the status of women in the age of jackson -- REFLECTIONS ON THE BLACK WOMAN'S ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY OF SLAVES -- "MY MOTHER WAS MUCH OF A WOMAN": BLACK WOMEN, WORK, AND THE FAMILY UNDER SLAVERY -- FREE BLACK WOMEN AND THE QUESTION OF MATRIARCHY: PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, 1784-1820 -- TWO WORLDS IN ONE: WORK AND FAMILY -- THE LIFE CYCLES AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN ETHNIC GROUPS Irish, Germans, and Native-born Whites in Buffalo, New York, 1855 -- Fertility and Marriage in a Nineteenth- Century Industrial City: Philadelphia, 1850-1880 -- Reconceptualizing Family, Work and Labor Organizing: Working Women in Troy, 1860-1890 -- WORKING-CLASS WOMEN IN THE GILDED AGE. FACTORY, COMMUNITY AND FAMILY LIFE AMONG COHOES, NEW YORK, COTTON WORKERS -- Homesteading in Northeastern Colorado, 1873-1920: Sex Roles and Women's Experience -- The Chicana in American History: The Mexican Women of El Paso, 1880-1920-A Case Study -- WORK AND THE FAMILY IN BLACK ATLANTA, 1880 -- FAMILY TIME AND INDUSTRIAL TI?? Family and Work in a Planned Corporation Town, 1900-1924 -- IMPERFECT UNIONS CLASS AND GENDER IN CRIPPLE CREEK, 1894-1904 -- A FLEXIBLE TRADITION: SOUTH ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS CONFRONT A NEW WORK EXPERIENCE -- NEW IMMIGRANT WOMEN AT WORK: ITALIANS AND JEWS IN NEW YORK CITY, 1880-1905 -- BEYOND THE STEREOTYPE: A NEW LOOK AT THE IMMIGRANT WOMAN, 1880-1924 -- Urbanization without Breakdown