If All We Did Was Weep at Home

<p>In a study encompassing American history from the colonial period to the 1870s the author examines the protean identity of white working-class women their often courageous struggles for recognition and survival and their interactions with other elements of American society. <br /><br />Vividly written informative and based on an impressive array of primary and secondary sources <i>If All We Did Was to Weep at Home</i> . . . offers a synthesis that women's historians and labor historians will find useful. --<i>Library Journal</i></p>