Women Have Always Worked

A Concise History

Alice Kessler-Harris (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

254 Seiten

2018 | Second Edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08358-7 (ISBN)

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A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and trade unionists, immigrants and African Americans, professionals and menial laborers, and women from across the class spectrum. She delves into issues ranging from the gendered nature of the success ethic to the social activism and the meaning of citizenship for female wage workers. This second edition adds artwork and features significant updates. A new chapter by Kessler-Harris follows women into the early twenty-first century as they confront barriers of race, sex, and class to earn positions in the new information society.

Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Emerita at Columbia University and a professor at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Her many books include In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America and A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences.

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgments1The Meaning of Work in Women’s Lives2 Household Labor3 Working for Wages4 Women's Social Mission5 Changing the Shape of the Workforce6 Equality and Freedom at OddsNotesIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	16.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	Working Class in American History
Zusatzinfo	78 black & white photographs, 4 charts, 1 table
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-252-08358-X / 025208358X
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08358-7 / 9780252083587
Zustand	Neuware