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A Canadian in Lowell: Labour, Manhood and Independence in the Early Industrial Era, 1840-1849
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A Canadian in Lowell: Labour, Manhood and Independence in the Early Industrial Era, 1840-1849
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| Abstract |
Daniel Spencer Gilman, born in 1816 in Brome County in the Eastern Townships, emigrated to the textile factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1840. The author argues that the thirty-nine surviving letters written to his family in Brome County, from his arrival in Lowell until 1849, provide insight into the meaning of class and gender in this period of economic and social transition. The author also argues that the letters reveal that migration of Quebec Anglophones to New England mill towns began earlier than the more studied permanent family emigration of Francophone Quebecers, which began in the later 1850s.
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Labour/Le Travail
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Vol. 48
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197-263
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Fall 2001
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en
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Little, J. I. “A Canadian in Lowell: Labour, Manhood and Independence in the Early Industrial Era, 1840-1849.” Labour/Le Travail Vol. 48 (Fall 2001): 197–263.
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