Out to Work A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States

Name: Out to Work A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
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ISBN: 9780195157093

ISBN-10: 0195157095

ISBN-13: 9780195157093

Edition: 20th 2003 (Anniversary)

Authors: Alice Kessler-Harris

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First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark book, the author has updated the original and written a new Afterword.

Book details

List price: $26.99
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.31" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




Forming the Female Wage Labor Force: Colonial America to the Civil War



Limits of Independence in the Colonial Economy



From Household Manufactures to Wage Work



Industrial Wage Earners and the Domestic Ideology



The Idea of Home and Mother at Work: The Civil War to World War I



"Why Is It Can a Woman Not Be Virtuous If She Does Mingle with the Toilers?"



Women's Choices in an Expanding Labor Market



Technology, Efficiency, and Resistance



Protective Labor Legislation



Transforming the Notion of Work for Women: World War I to the Present



Ambition and Its Antidote in a New Generation of Female Workers



Some Benefits of Labor Segregation in a Decade of Depression



"Making History Working for Victory"



The Radical Consequences of Incremental Change


A Note of Acknowledgment


Epilogue


Notes


Index