Alice Kessler-Harris

A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences

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In this updated edition of a pathbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together, these topics… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8131-4513-6
EAN: 9780813145136
Produktnummer: 15380678
Verlag: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 196 S.
Masse: H21.3 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.5 cm 249 g
Auflage: 2. A.
Gewicht: 249

Über den Autor

Alice Kessler-Harris is R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History and professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous books, including In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America; Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States; and A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman.