Wendy Gamber

The Female Economy

The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores a lost world of women's dominance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 228mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780252066016
• ISBN-10: 0252066014
• Artikelnr.: 20960723

Autorenporträt

Wendy Gamber is a member of the Department of History at Indiana University, Bloomington.  

Inhaltsangabe

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. Fashion and Independence: Dressmakers and Millinersin the Antebellum
City
PART ONE The Female Economy: Proprietors, Workers, and Consumers, ca.
1860¿1910
Two. A Precarious Independence: Female Proprietors in Gilded Age Boston
Three. The Female Aristocracy of Labor: Workers in the Trades, 1860-1917
Four. The Social Relations of Consumption: Producers and Consumers in the
Era of Custom Production
PART TWO Gendered Transformations: Toward Mass Production,1860-1930
Five. A Feminine Skill: Work,Technology, and the Sexual Division of Labor
in the Dressmaking Trade, 1860-1920
Six. Commerce over Craft: Wholesalers and Retailers in the Millinery
Trade,1860-1930
Seven. Engendering Change: The Department Store and the Factory, 1890-1930
Conclusion
Appendix
Essay on Primary Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover