Replication data for: Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution

This study explores the transformation of women's wage work in New England between 1820 and 1900 with distinct studies of rural outwork, cotton textile manufacturing, boot and shoemaking, domestic service, needle trades, and teaching. Appendices in TRANSFORMING WOMEN'S WORK (Cornell University Press, 1994) discuss in detail how the datasets were constructed. Beginning with either employment or census records, Thomas Dublin employed nominal record linkage to assemble life course data on groups of women workers in Mew England.