The Factory Girl And The Seamstress

Author : Amal Amireh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136712609

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This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with their society's economic and social relaities. Against this view and to highlight the cultural importance of working-class women, this study argues that, in responding to industrialization, middle class writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Fern, Davies, and Phelps used the figures of the factory worker and the seamstress to express their anxieties about unstable gender and class identitites. These fictional representations were influenced by, and contributed to, an important but understudied cultural debate about wage labor, working women, and class.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Women
ISBN : OCLC:32727566

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Author : Posy Lovell
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398714564

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Victory for the Sewing Factory Girls by Posy Lovell Pdf

'Inspiring, uplifting and full of heart' - Annie Lyons 1916, Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory, newly pregnant Ellen is rushed off her feet at the Clydebank Clothing exchange, the heart of the community. Ellen is missing her husband James who is away with the Royal Navy, and worried about how to make ends meet. She desperately wants to confide in her best friend Sadie. However, Sadie is hiding a heart-breaking secret of her own which places strain on their friendship. Ignoring concerns from her sister Sadie, seventeen-year-old Rachel has signed up as a munitions worker at the former sewing factory in Clydebank. Together with the other women nicknamed 'the munitionettes' she finds fun and friendship as they start a local football team. When Ellen is forced to return to the factory to earn money for her growing family, she clashes with Sadie, who is angry about the working conditions. Several of the women and their babies are falling ill, despite assurances from management that the factory is safe. As the war rages on, can the women help each other cope through the difficult times ahead? READERS ARE LOVING POSY LOVELL: 'If I could give it more than five stars, I would!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I couldn't put the book down!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Already waiting for a third book in the series' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A gem of a story' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Gripped me from the first sentence' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A brilliant second book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Author : Barbara Greenwood
Publisher : Kids Can Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1553376498

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Factory Girl by Barbara Greenwood Pdf

At the dingy, overcrowded Acme Garment Factory, Emily Watson stands for eleven hours a day clipping threads from blouses. Every time the boss passes, he shouts at her to snip faster. But if Emily snips too fast, she could ruin the garment and be docked pay. If she works too slowly, she will be fired. She desperately needs this job. Without the four dollars a week it brings, her family will starve. When a reporter arrives, determined to expose the terrible conditions in the factory, Emily finds herself caught between the desperate immigrant girls with whom she works and the hope of change. Then tragedy strikes, and Emily must decide where her loyalties lie. Emily's fictional experiences are interwoven with non-fiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, the plight of working children then and now, and much more. Rarely seen archival photos accompany this story of the past as only Barbara Greenwood can tell it.

Author : Posy Lovell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Clydesdale (Scotland)
ISBN : 0750550775

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The Sewing Factory Girls by Posy Lovell Pdf

Clydebank, 1911. Ellen works at the Sewing Machine factory. So does her sister, Bridget, Bridget's fiance Malcolm, and her new friend Sadie, who has recently come home after the death of her father to help her mum look after her siblings. For Sadie, the factory is a way to make ends meet. But Ellen has sewing in her veins, even making Bridget's wedding dress on her beloved sewing machine. But then Ellen discovers that the work of the cabinet polishers - her job - is to be reorganised, and they will be doing more work for less pay. Ellen feels like it is a betrayal whilst Sadie is more pragmatic. But she tells Ellen about trade unions and how at the factory she worked in before, there was a strike. And Ellen gets an idea...

Author : A. I. (Ariel Ivers) Cummings
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290004811

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Mary A. Hyde,Mrs. Mary A. HYDE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000599336

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How to Win Our Workers by Mary A. Hyde,Mrs. Mary A. HYDE Pdf

Author : Christine Seifert
Publisher : Zest Books ™
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541579620

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The Factory Girls by Christine Seifert Pdf

The twentieth century ushered in a new world filled with a dazzling array of consumer goods. Even the poorest immigrant girls could afford a blouse or two. But these same immigrant teens toiled away in factories in appalling working conditions. Their hard work and sacrifice lined the pockets of greedy factory owners who were almost exclusively white men. The tragic Triangle Waist Factory fire in 1911 resulted in the deaths of over a hundred young people, mostly immigrant girls, who were locked in the factory. Told from the perspective of six young women who lived the story, this book reminds us why what we buy and how we vote really matter.

Author : Ariel Ivers Cummings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015063546553

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The Factory Girl by Ariel Ivers Cummings Pdf

Author : Josanne La Valley
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780544699533

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Factory Girl by Josanne La Valley Pdf

In order to save her family’s farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading conditions and contempt for her minority (Uyghur) background. Sustained by her bond with other Uyghur girls, Roshen is resolved to endure all to help her family and ultimately her people. A workplace survival story, this gritty, poignant account focuses on a courageous teen and illuminates the value—and cost—of freedom.

Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399011952

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Factory Girls by Paul Chrystal Pdf

Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever narrower flues. This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century. Without women there would have been no pre-industrial cottage industries, without women the Industrial Revolution would not have been nearly as industrial and nowhere near as revolutionary. Many women, and children, were obliged to take up work in the mills and factories – long hours, dangerous, often toxic conditions, monotony, bullying, abuse and miserly pay were the usual hallmarks of a day’s work - before they headed homeward to their other job: keeping home and family together. This long overdue and much needed book also covers the social reformers, the role of feminism and activism and the various Factory Acts and trade unionism. We examine how women and children suffered chronic occupational diseases and disabling industrial injuries - life changing and life shortening – and often a one way ticket to the workhouse. The book concludes with a survey of the art, literature and the music which formed the soundtrack for the factory girl and the climbing boys.

Author : Lori Merish
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822373315

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Archives of Labor by Lori Merish Pdf

In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature—from autobiographies, pamphlet novels, and theatrical melodrama to seduction tales and labor periodicals—Merish recovers working-class women's vital presence as writers and readers in the antebellum era. Her reading of texts by a diverse collection of factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes boldly challenges the purportedly masculine character of class dissent during this era. Whether addressing portrayals of white New England "factory girls," fictional accounts of African American domestic workers, or the first-person narratives of Mexican women working in the missions of Mexican California, Merish unsettles the traditional association of whiteness with the working class to document forms of cross-racial class identification and solidarity. In so doing, she restores the tradition of working women's class protest and dissent, shows how race and gender are central to class identity, and traces the ways working women understood themselves and were understood as workers and class subjects.

Author : Nancy Carson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008134822

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The Factory Girl by Nancy Carson Pdf

Henzey is no ordinary factory girl...

Author : Mary A. Hyde
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : History
ISBN : 110409441X

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How to Win Our Workers by Mary A. Hyde Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Great Britain. Council on Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015076567703

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Report of the Committee of Council on Education (England and Wales), with Appendix by Great Britain. Council on Education Pdf