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Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1979
ISBN
0195026276, 9780195026276
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11780718 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
290\273
Time added
2015-02-25 15:00:45

Description

With the first generations of wage-earning women, precedents were established that still operate in today's workforce. An understanding of the early decades of this century is thus essential for women's studies, labor history, and sociology. Writing with a keen eye for detail as well as a real empathy with these women, Leslie Tentler reconstructs the day-to-day realities of life on the job, in the home and in the industrial neighborhoods of major cities. In doing so, she explores the myth that jobs outside the home for this generation led to women's emancipation.

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