FONER, Philip S., ed

THE FACTORY GIRLS; A collection of writings on life and struggles in the New England factories of the 1840s by the Factory Girls themselves, and the story...of the first trade unions of women workers in the United States

Urbana IL: University of Illinois, (1977). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xxvii, 360. Notes. Maroon cloth. Top edge spotted, o/w a VG tight copy in somewhat worn dj. Item #49349

Writings more militant than those from the better-known "Lowell Offering," and from some of the operatives who formed the first trade unions of industrial women in the U.S.

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