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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In 1871 Jennie Collins became one of the first working-class American women to publish a volume of her own writings: Nature's Aristocracy. Merging autobiography! social criticism! fictionalized vignettes! and feminist polemics! her book examines the perennial problem of class in America. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionNote on the TextNature'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 SuffrageNotes...
