America's working women a documentary history, 1600 to the present

Before 1820. Paid and unpaid labor ; Servitude -- 1820-1865. Slaves and free blacks ; The contested land ; Factory life ; Controversy about women's work -- 1865-1890. Industry ; Coping with new conditions -- 1890-1920. Migrants and immigrants ; Rural labor ; Industrial labor ; The tradition of...

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Weitere Verfasser: Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY u.a. Norton 1995
Ausgabe:Rev. and updated
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Zusammenfassung:Before 1820. Paid and unpaid labor ; Servitude -- 1820-1865. Slaves and free blacks ; The contested land ; Factory life ; Controversy about women's work -- 1865-1890. Industry ; Coping with new conditions -- 1890-1920. Migrants and immigrants ; Rural labor ; Industrial labor ; The tradition of struggle -- 1920-1940. Nonindustrial work ; The Depression ; Working women organize ; Black women against racism ; Using the state -- 1940-1955. The war ; Feminine mystique and feminine reality -- 1955-Present. Continuing patterns ; Deindustrialization ; The movements ; New initiatives.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-350) and index
Beschreibung:XXVII, 356 S.
Ill.
ISBN:0393036537
0-393-03653-7
0393312623
0-393-31262-3