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Book Review

Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England. By Mary H. Blewett. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. xii, 521 pp. $40.00, ISBN 1-55849-239-9.)

Mary H. Blewett, well established as a historian of labor and gender in New England history, has written a large book that continues her career-long exploration of these themes. She herself calls it, I presume affectionately, "the monster." The book weighs in at about 1.1 kilograms, or 2½ pounds, and is 521 densely packed pages long, including 80 pages of endnotes and an index. There are probably nearer a quarter of a million than two hundred thousand words in this book. What are they about, are they all necessary, and what do they add up to? . . .

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