Workshop to Office Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900-1950

Name: Workshop to Office Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900-1950
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ISBN: 9780801480058

ISBN-10: 0801480051

ISBN-13: 9780801480058

Edition: 1993

Authors: Miriam Cohen

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In turn-of-the-century New York, Italian immigrant daughters spent their youth in factories while their mothers did irregular wage labor as well as domestic work at home. By the I940s, Italian-American girls were in school, socializing and preparing for white-collar jobs that would not begin until they were eighteen. Drawing on a range of sources from censuses to high school yearbooks, Miriam Cohen examines shifting patterns in the family roles, work lives, and schooling of two generations of Italian-American women. Paying particular attention to the importance of these women's pragmatic daily choices, she documents how major social and political changes helped create new opportunities and…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/22/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction Italian-American Women: a Social Historical Analysis



Women and the Family in Southern Italy



Work and Family in New York: Daughters



Work and Family during the Early Decades: Wives and Mothers



Italian Families, Their Daughters, and Schooling



Italian Women and the Emergence of the White-Collar Economy



Work, School, and Italian-American Families at Midcentury


Conclusion











Selected Bibliography


Index