Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Wendy M. Gordon. Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. 2002. Pp. x, 234. $22.95 paper. ISBN 0-7914-5526-2.

Wendy Gordon's detailed analysis of three mill towns in England, Scotland, and the United States during the mid-nineteenth century uses both quantitative and qualitative sources, as well as a comparative methodology, to interrogate the situation for single "migrant" women in a thirty-year period in each city--Preston, Lancashire; Lowell, ...

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