America's working women / compiled and edited by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby.
- Date:
- [1976]
- Books
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Description
Contains primary source materials and sections on black slaves, Lowell, women on the Oregon trail, nursing, white slavery, letters from black migrants, the Lawrence textile strike, the Triangle fire, and child care.
Publication/Creation
New York : Vintage Books, [1976]
Physical description
xxii, 408, ix pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Before 1820. Paid and unpaid labor ; Servitude. -- 1820-1865. Slaves and free blacks ; The contested land ; Factory life ; Controversy about women's work. -- 1865-1890. Industry ; Coping with new conditions. -- 1890-1920. Migrants and immigrants ; Rural labor ; Industrial labor ; The tradition of struggle. -- 1920-1940. Nonindustrial work -- The Depression ; Working women organize ; Black women against racism ; Using the state. -- 1940-1955. The war ; Feminine mystique and feminine reality -- 1955-Present. Continuing patterns ; Deindustrialization ; The movements ; New initiatives.
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Location Status Access Closed storesM31274
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ISBN
- 0394722086
- 9780394722085