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The transition to industrialization : editor's note / Kenneth Fones-Wolf -- The changing division of skill and responsibility among Boston housewrights, 1787-1837 / Lisa B. Lubow -- Women's work in the Western Massachusetts rural economy / Marjorie Ruzich Abel -- Minders of the machines, 1825-1845 / Timothy C. Coogan -- Aftermath of a disaster : the collapse of the Pemberton Mill / Clarisse A. Poirier -- The rise and fall of craft unionism : editor's note / Kenneth Fones-Wolf -- When friends fall out : Charles Litchman and the role of personality in the Knights of Labor / Robert E. Weir -- We are freeborn American women : the persistent politics of native-born, New England women as nineteenth-century industrial workers / Mary H. Blewett. Resistance, reform, and repression : Italian immigrant laborers in Clinton, 1896-1906 / Jill Lepore -- Worcester, open shop city : the National Metal Trades Association and the molders' strike of 1918-1920 / Bruce Cohen -- Maintaining unions in a worldwide political economy : editor's note / Kenneth Fones-Wolf -- Unions, labor markets, and deindustrialization : the Holyoke textile industry / William Hartford -- The long strike : the practice of solidarity among Boston's packinghouse workers / Jim Bollen and Jim Green -- The fight against question two : craft unions in the political arena, 1988 / Mark Erlich.

notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

publication place: Westfield, Mass.