Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- A Note on Quotations -- Chapter One. Women Workers and Early Industrialization -- Chapter Two. The Early Textile Industry and the Rise of Lowell -- Chapter Three. The Lowell Work Force, 1836, and the Social Origins of Women...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Hodgdon Letters -- 2. Letters to Sabrina Bennett -- 3. The Larcom Letters -- 4. Mary Paul Letters -- 5. Delia Page Letters -- Afterword -- Index