Women have always worked : a historical overview / Alice Kessler-Harris ; [photo research by Flavia Rando].
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Gelman stacks
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HD6095 .K45 (show me on map) | Available | Request |
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LIB stacks
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HD6095 .K45 | Available | Request |
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Nursing/Biology Mary Walsh Non-circ
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| Gallaudet | |||
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UNIV General stacks
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331.40973 K47w, 1981 | Available | Request |
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Fenwick stacks
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HD6095 .K45 | Available | Request |
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Lauinger stacks
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HD6095 .K45 1981 | Available | Request |
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Social Work Library
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Marymount Main stacks
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HD6095 K42w, 1981 | Available | Request |
| Subjects |
United States.
Women -- Employment -- United States -- History. Women -- Employment. |
| Series |
Women's lives, women's work.
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| Description |
xiii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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| Copyright Date |
[1981]
[1981] ©1981 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary |
TRACES THE INVOLVEMENT OF POOR, MINORITY, AND MIDDLE CLASS AMERICAN WOMEN IN HOUSEHOLD WORK, WAGE LABOR, SOCIAL REFORM, AND DEPRESSION AND WARTIME LABOR FORCES.
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| Contents |
Work in the colonies -- The success ethic -- Photo Feature -- The working lives of women in the U.S. -- Woman's separate sphere -- Bread and roses -- The colonial household -- The household transformed -- The affluent housewife -- Photo feature -- taking care of family needs -- Patterns of poverty -- Post-war prosperity -- Creating a labor force -- The domestic code -- From family worker to wage worker -- Unenviable jobs -- Photo feature -- Women in the paid work force -- What is to be done? -- Streamlining operations-- Moral reform -- Enlarging women's sphere -- Social housekeeping -- The helping professions -- Photo feature -- working to reform the world -- Women as housewives -- Women as consumers -- Depression and war -- Contemporary patterns -- Fighting discrimination -- Photo feature -- a changing and growing labor force -- Looking into the future.
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| Genre |
History.
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| Geographic Area |
United States
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| Network Numbers |
(OCoLC)6195597
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| WorldCat | Search OCLC WorldCat |
| WorldCat Identities | Kessler-Harris, Alice.
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