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Replication data for: Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution

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Title Replication data for: Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0CTHPO
 
Creator Thomas Dublin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This study explores the transformation of women's wage work in New England between 1820 and 1900 with distinct studies of rural outwork, cotton textile manufacturing, boot and shoemaking, domestic service, needle trades, and teaching. Appendices in TRANSFORMING WOMEN'S WORK (Cornell University Press, 1994) discuss in detail how the datasets were constructed. Beginning with either employment or census records, Thomas Dublin employed nominal record linkage to assemble life course data on groups of women workers in Mew England.
 
Subject Social Sciences
women, employment, New England--wages--industrial revolution
 
Date 1994
 
Relation Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (Columbia University Press, 1979; 2d. ed., 1993) is an earlier study on which TWW built. Data from the earlier study are available through the dataverse of the Henry Murray Center.
 
Type largely individual level data for working women; for Lynn and Boston there is also data for individual firms recorded in the federal manuscript censuses of manufacturing, 1850-1880.