Home and Work Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic

Name: Home and Work Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic
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ISBN: 9780195085617

ISBN-10: 0195085612

ISBN-13: 9780195085617

Edition: 1994 (Reprint)

Authors: Jeanne Boydston

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Over the course of a two hundred year period, women's domestic labor gradually lost its footing as a recognized aspect of economic life in America. The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer." This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labor in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States. Boydston argues that just as a capitalist economic order had first to teach that wages were the measure of a man's worth, it had at the same time,…

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List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/20/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.51" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English