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The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution Paperback – August 16 2006 by Marla R Miller Author

The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ The Needles Eye reveals the previously overlooked work of women in the clothing trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Though Miller grounds her study in the particulars of the upper Connecticut River valley she connects the local evidence to larger historical

The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ Chapter 7 Women’s Artisanal Work in the Changing New England Marketplace pp 185210 In 1776 while a gathering of planters and businessmen in Philadelphia declared one revolution Adam Smith launched another

The Needle’s Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ The Needle’s Eye has twin goals to put skilled female craft workers into the story of American artisans in a changing economy and secondly to unravel the structures and hierarchies of working women and their customers Although Miller’s primary focus is on gownmakers and tailors for whom the period 17601830 was a kind of golden age of economic opportunity she does not overlook the lessspecialized lessskilled and lowerpaid seamstresses many of whom welcomed the chance for

The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ THE NEEDLE’S EYE Women and Work in the Age of Revolution By Marla R Miller Amherst University of Massachusetts Press 2006 In The Needle’s Eye Marla R Miller has rescued for a twentyfirst century audience New England needlework and needleworkers in the generations before during and after the American Revolution

Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ In her study of garment production in western New Englands Connecticut River valley from the 1760s to 1812 Marla R Miller deepens our understanding of the growing importance of clothing in a rapidly evolving consumer society and of womens pivotal role in meeting the demand for everything from basic work clothes to elaborately quilted petticoats

The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been the colonial Goodwife perpetually spinning sewing darning and quilting answering all of her familys textile needs

The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ » The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution full book Cover Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Early American Artisanry Why Gender Matters Part I Chapter 1 Clothing and Consumers in Rural New England 17601810 Part I Chapter 2 Needle Trades in New England 17601810

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