From Marriage to the Market The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work

Name: From Marriage to the Market The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work
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ISBN: 9780520246461

ISBN-10: 0520246462

ISBN-13: 9780520246461

Edition: 2006

Authors: Susan Thistle

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A social transformation of profound proportions has been unfolding over the second half of the twentieth century as women have turned from household work to wages as the key source of their livelihood. This timely study, a broad comparative analysis of African American women's and white women's changing relationships to home and work over the past forty years, at last provides a wide-ranging overview of how this shift is influencing the shape of families and the American economy. Susan Thistle brings together diverse issues and statistics--the plight of single mothers; the time crunch faced by many parents; the problem of housework; patterns of work, employment and marriage; and much…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/22/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 311
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946



List of Figures


List of Tables


Acknowledgments



A World Turned Inside Out



Support for Women's Domestic Economy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries



The Breakdown of Women's Domestic Economy after World War II



Economic Difficulties and a Contradictory Alliance



The Formation of a Female Underclass



The "New Economy" and the Transformation of Women's Work



How and Why Mothers Have Been Shortchanged



New Possibilities and Old Inequalities


Notes


Bibliography


Index