This annotated bibliography of 19th-century literature by and about
American textile factory workers examines 457 texts, including
novels, short fiction, poetry, drama, narratives, and children's
literature, and offers new insights into 19th-century working-class
culture. The textile industry was the premier and largest
19th-century industry in the United States. The texts, drawn from a
variety of publications, such as workers' periodicals, mainstream
publishers' monographs, newspapers, magazines, story papers, dime
novels, pulp publications, and Sunday-school tracts, reveal the
variety and complexity of the factory literature and represent the
largest body of American working-class women's literature. The
literature explores a number of women's concerns, such as their
roles as workers, sexual harassment, marriage, motherhood, and
homosexual and heterosexual relationships, and treats the factory
work experience of hundreds of thousands of 19th-century children.
Annotations are divided among 14 topical chapters that highlight
such key issues as women's independence, class bias, child labor,
technology, and protest. Most entries include information on text
availability, including microform reprints and U.S. library
holdings for rare titles. Scholars of 19th-century women's
literature and history will value the full picture of 19th-century
factory women's lives that emerges through the synopses of the
literature. This work includes the first literary depictions of and
protest against child labor, the first anti-factory poem, and the
first fictional depiction of a strike. The more than 50 annotated
texts that treat child labor offer new source material for the
study of child labor in19th-century America. Appendices furnish a
chronological listing of titles, a selection of nonfiction texts,
and a listing of unavailable texts.
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