Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United StatesIn Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working class women's literature from autobiographies, pamphlet novels, and theatrical melodrama to seduction tales and labor periodicals Merish recovers working class women's vital presence as writers and