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Mulrooney, Margaret M. "Labor at Home: The Domestic World of Workers at the du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902," American Studies Program, College of William and Mary, May 1996.
Although the history of the du Pont family and company have been well-documented, little is known about the predominantly Irish Catholic families who lived and worked at the home plant near Wilmington, Delaware. To correct this oversight, “Labor at Home” explores every aspect of their domestic world-from religious beliefs, family structure, gender relations, and ethnic ties to houses, furnishings, yards, foodways, and attitudes toward social mobility. Using a wide variety of sources and methodologies, it concludes that conditions in this community enabled these wage-earning Irish Catholics to develop a close affinity for bourgeois American culture even as they retained a distinct ethno-religious identity.
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