History of Women in the United States - Industrial Wage Work (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cott, Nancy F.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Walter de Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 335
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783110969450
• Artikelnr.: 53116657

Inhaltsangabe

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Industrial Wage Work -- The Economic Status of Women in the Early Republic: Quantitative Evidence -- WOMEN, WORK, AND THE FAMILY: FEMALE OPERATIVES IN THE LOWELL MILLS, 1830-1860 -- WOMEN, WORK, AND PROTEST IN THE EARLY LOWELL MILLS: "THE OPPRESSING HAND OF AVARICE WOULD ENSLAVE US" -- WORK, GENDER AND THE ARTISAN TRADITION IN NEW ENGLAND SHOEMAKING, 1780-1860 -- SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT THE WORKPLACE -- Social Change and Women's Work and Family Experience in Ireland and the United States -- MIGRANT WOMEN IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK -- Female Labor Force Participation: The Origin of Black and White Differences, 1870 and 1880 -- "A Good Place to Work." Industrial Workers and Occupational Choice: The Case of Berkshire Women -- "Honor Each Noble Maid": Women Workers and the Yonkers Carpet Weavers' Strike of 1885 -- THE UNION OF SEX AND CRAFT IN THE HAVERHILL SHOE STRIKE OF 1895 -- The Work and Wages of Single Women, 1870 to 1920 -- WOMEN'S WAGE WORK AS MYTH AND HISTORY -- "WHERE ARE THE ORGANIZED WOMEN WORKERS?" -- ORGANIZING THE UNORGANIZABLE: THREE JEWISH WOMEN AND THEIR UNION