Never Done : A History of American Housework

Name: Never Done : A History of American Housework
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ISBN: 9780394708416

ISBN-10: 0394708415

ISBN-13: 9780394708416

Edition: N/A

Authors: Susan Strasser

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Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the "women's separate sphere," and the respective influences of advertising, home economics, and women's entry into the workforce. "Never Done" begins by describing the household chores of nineteenth-century America: cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with boilers and flatirons, endless water-hauling and fire-tending, and so on. Strasser goes on to explain and explore how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Easing some tasks and eliminating others, new commercial processes…

Book details

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/12/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 365
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Susan Strasser is the author of the award winning "Never Done" & "Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market." Her articles have appeared in "The New York Times," "The Washington Post," & "The Nation." A professor of history at the University of Delaware, she lives near Washington, D.C.

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue: Never Done	p. 3
Daily Bread	p. 11
Out of the Frying Pan	p. 32
The Home Fires	p. 50
At the Flick of A Switch	p. 67
Fetch a Pail of Water	p. 85
Blue Monday	p. 104
A Stitch in Time	p. 125
The Boarder	p. 145
Mistress and Maid	p. 162
Redeeming Woman's Profession	p. 180
The Business of Housekeeping	p. 202
When the Bough Breaks	p. 224
Selling Mrs. Consumer	p. 242
Quick and Easy	p. 263
You Deserve a Break	p. 282
Life on the Market	p. 300
Source Notes	p. 313
Picture Credits	p. 352
Index	p. 353
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