Unprotected labor : household workers, politics, and middle-class reform in New York, 1870-1940 /

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Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, this book explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labour protections that formed the foundation of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: May, Vanessa H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Women household employees > New York (State) > History.
Women household employees > Labor unions > New York (State) > History.
Women > New York (State) > Social conditions > History.
Labor movement > New York (State) > History.
Employées de maison > New York (État) > Histoire.
Employées de maison > Syndicats > New York (État) > Histoire.
Mouvement ouvrier > New York (État) > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Labor movement
Women household employees
Women > Social conditions
New York (State)
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 THE TYRANT OF THE HOUSEHOLD: The Debate over the "Servant Question" and the Privacy of the Middle-Class Home, 1870-1915; 2 STICKING TOGETHER THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND BAD: Immigrant Domestic Workers, Ethnic Communities, and Resistance; 3 ENCOURAGING THE GOOD, WEEDING OUT THE BAD, AND TEACHING THE IGNORANT: Women's Organizations and Domestic Workers in New York City, 1870-1915; 4 THE "ENLIGHTENED MAJORITY" VERSUS THE "DIE-HARD FRINGE": The State and Reform of Domestic Service, 1915-1940.
  • 5 EVERY DOMESTIC WORKER A UNION WORKER: Middle-Class African American Organizations and Domestic Workers Confront Labor Exploitation during the DepressionEPILOGUE: The Walls of Jericho; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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