Work and labor in early America

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ISBN: 9780807842362
ISBN: 0807842362
ISBN: 9780807817988
ISBN: 0807817988
ISBN: 1469600692
ISBN: 9781469600697
Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations
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electronic resource
Publisher: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1988.

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Fulfilling John Smith's vision: work and labor in early America / Stepehen Innes -- Working the fields in a developing economy: Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1675 / Daniel Vickers -- Martha Ballard and her girls: women's work in eighteenth-century Maine / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Rural labor and the farm household in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1820 / Paul G.E. Clemens and Lucy Simler -- Economic diversification and the labor organization in the Chesapeake, 1650-1820 / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh -- Task and gang systems: the organization of labor on new world plantations / Philip D. Morgan -- The vicissitudes of fortune: the careers of laboring men in Philadelphia, 1750-1800 / Billy G. Smith -- The Anglo-American seaman as collective worker, 1700-1750 / Marcus Rediker.
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Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.