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America's working women : a documentary history, 1600 to the present / edited by Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon with Susan Reverby.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 1995.Edition: Rev. and updatedDescription: xxvii, 356 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0393036537
  • 9780393036534
  • 0393312623 (pbk.)
  • 9780393312621 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.4
LOC classification:
  • HD 6095 A512 1995
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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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HD 6095 A512 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000075575

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-350) and index.

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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