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Gendering labor history
Alice Kessler-Harris
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
ISBN: 0252073932   DDC: 331.470973   LCC: HD6095   Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-356) and index.

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.

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Dewey Class: 331.470973 -- Labor economics
LCC Number: HD6095

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: 374 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (pbk. : alk. paper)

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