Gendering labor history / Alice Kessler-Harris.

Author/creator Kessler-Harris, Alice
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2006.
Description374 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesThe working class in American history
Working class in American history. ^A227744
Contents Where are the organized women workers? -- Organizing the unorganizable : three Jewish women and their union -- Problems of coalition building : women and trade unions in the 1920s -- Rose Schneiderman and the limits of women's trade unionism -- Stratifying by sex : notes on the history of working women -- Independence and virtue in the lives of wage-earning women in the United States, 1870-1930 -- A new agenda for American labor history : a gendered analysis and the question of class -- Treating the male as "other" : redefining the parameters of labor history -- Reconfiguring the private in the context of the public -- The just price, the free market, and the value of women -- The debate over equity for women in the workplace : recognizing differences -- Gendered interventions : exploring the historical roots of U.S. social policy -- The paradox of motherhood : night-work restrictions in the United States -- Measures for masculinity : the American labor movement and welfare-state policy during the Great Depression -- In pursuit of economic citizenship -- Reframing the history of women's wage labor : challenges of a global perspective -- History is public or nothing : learning how to keep illusions in our future.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-356) and index.
LCCN 2006020764
ISBN0252031490 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252073932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780252031496
ISBN9780252073939

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