Unprotected Labor Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940

Name: Unprotected Labor Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940
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ISBN: 9780807871935

ISBN-10: 0807871931

ISBN-13: 9780807871935

Edition: 2011

Authors: Vanessa H. May

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Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.12" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Vanessa H. May is assistant professor of history at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Tyrant of the Household


The Debate over the ï¿½Servant Questionï¿½ and the Privacy of the Middle-Class Home, 1870-1915



Sticking Together Through Good Times and Bad


Immigrant Domestic Workers, Ethnic Communities, and Resistance



Encouraging the Good, Weeding Out the Bad, and Teaching the Ignorant


Women's Organizations and Domestic Workers in New York City, 1870-1915



The ï¿½Enlightened Majorityï¿½ Versus the ï¿½Die-Hard Fringeï¿½


The State and Reform of Domestic Service, 1915-1940



Every Domestic Worker a Union Worker


Middle-Class African American Organizations and Domestic Workers Confront Labor Exploitation during the Depression


Epilogue


The Walls of Jericho


Notes


Bibliography


Index