How Long to Read Transforming Women's Work

How Long Does it Take to Read Transforming Women's Work?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Transforming Women's Work by Thomas Dublin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"I am not living upon my friends or doing housework for my board but am a factory girl," asserted Anna Mason in the early 1850s. Although many young women who worked in the textile mills found that the industrial revolution brought greater independence to their lives, most working women in nineteenth-century New England did not, according to Thomas Dublin. Sketching engaging portraits of women's experience in cottage industries, factories, domestic service, and village schools, Dublin demonstrates that the autonomy of working women actually diminished as growing numbers lived with their families and contributed their earnings to the household. From diaries, letters, account books, and censuses, Dublin reconstructs employment patterns across the century as he shows how wage work increasingly came to serve the needs of families, rather than of individual women. He first examines the case of rural women engaged in the cottage industries of weaving and palm-leaf hatmaking between 1820 and 1850. Next, he compares the employment experiences of women in the textile mills of Lowell and the shoe factories of Lynn. Following a discussion of Boston working women in the middle decades of the century-particularly domestic servants and garment workers-Dublin turns his attention to the lives of women teachers in three New Hampshire towns.

How long is Transforming Women's Work?

Transforming Women's Work by Thomas Dublin is 344 pages long, and a total of 87,376 words.

This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Transforming Women's Work Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 57 minutes to read Transforming Women's Work aloud.

What Reading Level is Transforming Women's Work?

Transforming Women's Work is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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