Table of Contents
List of Tables, Figures, and Maps
Preface, 1999
Preface to the first edition
Part I. Background and beginnings
1. The rural order: Dudley and Oxford in 1810
2. Samuel Slater, textile mills, and a new economic landscape
Part II. The first generation
3. People and work: the social structure of occupations
4. The industrial order
5. How the operatives responded
6. How the towns responded
Part III. The second generation
7. Society and economy in three towns
8. Workers: responses new and old
9. Communities: "the greatest good to the greatest number"
Part IV. Afterwards
10. The war and beyond
Appendixes
1. A note on transiency
2. Tables
List of abbreviations used on notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Tables
Nonagricultural establishments in Dudley and Oxford, 1791, 1801, and 1811
Geographical mobility and persistence of household heads and individuals in
Dudley and Oxford, 1800-10
Geographical mobility and persistence of household heads and individuals in
Dudley and Oxford, 1810-30
Nontextile enterprises in Dudley and Oxford, 1801, 1811, 1831
Average annual work force, East Village, 1813-35
Age distribution of antebellum Dudley, Oxford, and Webster populations, in
percentages
Ethnic composition of Dudley, Oxford, and Webster populations, 1850 and
1860, in percentages
Percentage of Dudley, Oxford, and Webster labor forces in the four leading
occupations, 1860
Average annual work force of North, South, and East villages in Webster,
1836-1859
Average annual wage and percentage of Americans holding selected jobs,
Webster cotton mills, 1860
Average annual work force, aggregate turnover, and estimated voluntary
departure rates, Slater employees, 1814-59
Population of Dudley, Oxford, and Webster, 1790-1860
Nativity of Dudley, Oxford, and Webster inhabitants, 1860, in percentages
Figures
Aggregate turnover and estimated voluntary departure rates, Slater
employees, 1814-35
Aggregate turnover and estimated voluntary departure rates, Slater
employees, 1814-59
Maps
Massachusetts, ca. 1822, with detail of Dudley and Oxford
Geographical distribution of outworkers serving the Slater mills, 1813-16
Geographical distribution of outworkers serving the Slater mills, 1825-8
Ground plain of South Village, ca. 1825
Detail of south-central Massachusetts, ca. 1842, showing the new township of
Webster
