Constant Turmoil : The Politics of Industrial Life in 19th Century New England Book

	Illustrations	ix
	Prologue: Unlikely Acquaintances	1
1	The Fall River Patrimony: Those Legendary Bordens, 1799-1865	18
2	Gender Politics and Labor Reform in the Protest Heritages of Antebellum New England	45
3	British Immigrant Textile Workers and Their Class Conscious Legacies, 1820-1865	76
4	Wait, Agitate, Work, and Wait: Gender Politics and Ten-Hour Reform, 1865-1874	102
5	To Dominate the National Market, 1866-1878	141
6	They Have Brought Their Horns with Them: Deference and Defiance, 1868-1875	177
7	A New Lancashire for the Northeast, 1876-1878	225
8	Struggling over Amalgamations or Trade Unions, 1879-1884	260
9	Piecing Up the Fall River System, 1885-1897	307
10	The Ascendancy of Trade Unions and Combinations, 1898-1906	338
	Epilogue: The Escape of Al Priddy, the Death of M. C. D. Borden, and the Burnley Reunion	388
	Critical Assessment of Primary Sources	392
	Appendix
Table 1	Personal taxable income in Fall River, 1867	403
Table 2	Cotton manufacturing data for Fall River, 1865 and 1875	404
Table 3	Comparative nativities of population, 1870	404
Table 4	United States cotton mills producing print cloth, 1880	404
Table 5	Characterists of 153 "works in a cotton mill" families, Fall River: Globe Village and Little Canada in Ward 1, 1870	405
Table 6	Fall River, Lowell, and Lawrence, 1875: Persons employed in cotton goods	408
Table 7	Total population: Percentages of foreign-born in leading Massachusetts manufacturing cities, 1875	408
Table 8	Comparative data on Fall River, Lowell, and Lawrence, 1870-1880	408
Table 9	Southern competition and the Massachusetts cotton textile industry	410
Table 10	British immigration to the United States, 1840-1905	410
	Notes	413
	Acknowledgments	491
	Index	493