Joanna Furnace Women: 1881-1925, The Study of Women’s Roles in Industrial Society
Posted by Susan Leighow on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Joanna Furnace Women: 1881-1925, The Study of Women’s Roles in Industrial Society The world of iron production was a rough-and-tumble affair, a great contrast to the passive, sheltered world which historians and others often associate with American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet women were a part of Joanna Furnace since its beginnings in 1792, when ironmasters Samuel Potts and Thomas Rutter paid Katy Cryley wages of seven shillings,...read more
