Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981

Funding Totals

$46,000.00 (approved)
$44,465.07 (awarded)


Men, Women, and Work in the New England Shoe Industry, 1820-1920

FAIN: RS-*1691-80

University of Massachusetts, Lowell (Lowell, MA 01854-3629)
Mary H. Blewett (Project Director: March 1980 to October 1990)

To support research for a manuscript on the differing experiences of men and women working in the New England shoe industry between 1820-1920 from the perspectives of family history, labor history, and women's history.