Alice Kessler-Harris

Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States

Buch

First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of women's work into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark book, the author has updated the original and written… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-515709-3
EAN: 9780195157093
Produktnummer: 22356315
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 432 S.
Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.6 cm x D3.2 cm 494 g
Auflage: Anniversary
Gewicht: 494

Über den Autor

Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, where she also teaches in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is the author of A Woman's Wage, Women Have Always Worked and In Pursuit of Equity.