I also wanted to draw attention to Harding Davis as part of a tradition of social reform literature and thought that focuses on industrialization's marks on women, children, and the family structure. We noted the absence of a functioning family, and in this story Hugh and the other men do have work, but in different areas than the women. Note how the men work on the fires, but the women work on the production side of the mills. As industrial machinery became increasingly self-governing and alternately powered, men disappeared from many industrial scenes. We'll take this up more on Friday.
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