Jennie Collins

Nature's Aristocracy (eBook, PDF)

A Plea for the Oppressed
Redaktion: Ranta, Judith

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803229983
• Artikelnr.: 37844115

Autorenporträt

Jennie Collins (1828-87) began working at age fourteen in New England textile mills, where she labored for some years before becoming a domestic servant and later a garment shop seamstress. In the 1860s she began to speak publicly and write about labor causes and women's rights. In 1870 she left garment shop work and founded Boffin's Bower, a Boston charity to aid poor and working women. Judith A. Ranta is an independent scholar whose published works include The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker and Women and Children of the Mills: An Annotated Guide to Nineteenth-Century American Textile Factory Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Text
Nature's Aristocracy
      Chapter 1. Nature's Aristocracy
      Chapter 2. The Beggars
      Chapter 3. One Grade Above the Beggars
      Chapter 4. Crime and Nobility
      Chapter 5. Newsboys and Bootblacks
      Chapter 6. Shop-Girls
      Chapter 7. Journeymen Tailors
      Chapter 8. Servant-Girls
      Chapter 9. Then and Now of Factory Life
      Chapter 10. How Cotton Is Manufactured - Factory Friendships
      Chapter 11. Among the "Strikers"
      Chapter 12. Charitable Institutions
      Chapter 13. Natural and Unnatural Aristocrats
      Chapter 14. Labor Reform
      Chapter 15. Woman's Suffrage
Notes