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Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860. By Janet Greenlees. Aldershot, Hants, and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xx+244. $99.95.
In this volume, Janet Greenlees demonstrates the effects that waged women workers had on the development of cotton textile firms in Great Britain and the United States from 1780 to 1860. Whether British or American, they had agency and made their own choices and independent decisions. Greenlees aims to show the extent of their self-determination. She views them as individuals as well as part of a diverse group, demonstrating how they actively participated in shaping their employment and their individual relationships with management. This novel tack enables the reader...