Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: ITALIAN MIGRANTS IN URBAN AMERICA (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island)

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Diane C. Vecchio’s unique study considers the work experiences of Italian immigrant women and their daughters in the up to now unexamined regions of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Endicott, New York, all the way through the turn of the twentieth century. The usage of Italian and American sources and wealthy oral histories, this study reveals that women in Italy had economic responsibilities that ceaselessly included work experiences out of doors of the home, including jobs as midwives and businesswomen. Demonstrating the regional variation of Italian women’s work in addition to the skills they transplanted to The usa balances the image of inexperienced and low-skilled labourers that dominates scholarship on Italian working women. Vecchio’s research on Endicott sheds light at the gendered nature of life in a company town governed by welfare paternalism, whilst her research on Milwaukee emphasizes how Italian immigrant women turned to small business enterprise when local opportunities for wage-earning were limited.

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