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Women At Work in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Crowder.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Working-class women in nineteenth-century Philadelphia were important participants in the city’s economy and labor force. In addition to generating necessary sources of income, partaking in the workforce may have also provided economic mobility and independence. Increasing numbers of...