The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution

by Marla R . Miller (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $28.89

  Highlights the significance of women's work in the clothing trades of the early Republic. Drawing on diaries, letters, and material culture, this book explores the contours of working women's lives in rural New England, offering a view of their varied ranks and roles as producers and consumers, clients and crafts-women, employers and employees.