Transforming rural life : dairying families and agricultural change, 1820-1885 / Sally McMurry.
Material type: TextSeries: Revisiting rural AmericaPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.Description: xii, 291 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:- 080184889X (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780801848896 (hc : alk. paper)
- Cheesemakers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Dairy farmers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Cheese industry -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Dairying -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Rural conditions -- History -- 19th century
- Dairy products Processing
- United States
- SF274.U6 M38 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-280) and index.
1. Agriculture in the Dairy Zone: The Farming System of Cheese Dairying, 1810-1860 -- 2. Sharp Dealings: Cheesemakers and the Market -- 3. The Social Organization of Cheesemaking Households -- 4. "Intense Interest and Anxiety": The Women's Work of Household Cheesemaking -- 5. The Social Dynamics of Household Dairying: Forces for Change -- 6. The Rise of the Factory -- 7. The Social Organization of Factory Work: Cheesemaking Becomes Men's Work -- 8. The Dairy Zone Embattled: Factory-Era Agriculture -- 9. Fragmentation and Reorientation: Dairying Households in the Factory Era -- 10. Rural Communities Transformed.