She is the author or co-author of six academic monographs and numerous articles as well as two novels.
In the 1970s, Blewett became increasingly involved with community history projects in the Merrimack Valley, including with the creation of the Lowell National Historical Park and associated oral history projects.
[3] In 1976, Blewett co-founded, together with Joan Rothschild, the Women's Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
[5] Upon her retirement, the History Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell named an annual prize for student a research paper in Blewett's honor.
[6] Blewett's Men, Women and Work won, together with Joan Wallach Scott, the 1989 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History by the American Historical Association,[12] the 1989 Herbert G. Gutman Award for outstanding dissertation, and the New England Historical Association Book Award, 1989.