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

Kessler-Harris, Alice

ISBN 10: 0195030249 / ISBN 13: 9780195030242

Edité par Oxford University Press, New York, 1982

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Book is clean and tight. Former owner's signature on inside of front cover. Jacket's condition is near fine. This pioneering study traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the U.S. from colonial days to the present, and identifies the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Out to Work: The History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, New York
• Date de parution: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0195030249
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780195030242
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Poids: 2 livres

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Synopsis

A history of American women and their work since colonial times focuses on society's changing expectations of women

Revue de presse

Praise for the Previous Edition:

Impressive and deftly written....An example or two cannot do justice to the variety of materials and ideas the author draws together to explain how women workers have functioned as a low-paid reserve force, and why, as wage work became the rule rather than the exception in the 20th century, they found themselves in marginal jobs stereotyped as feminine. (The New York Times Book Review)

Comprehensive and packed with information. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Without a doubt the single best survey of transformation of women's paid and unpaid work from the colonial period to the present. (American Historical Review)