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Uncovers the relationship between Japanese American women's experience as domestic workers during the first seventy years of the twentieth century and larger historical forces: the transformation of the economy and labor market in Northern California and the process of labor migration and settl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glenn, Evelyn Nakano (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1986.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women household employees > California > History.
Japanese American women > California > Social conditions.
Employées de maison > Californie > Histoire.
Américaines d'origine japonaise > Californie > Conditions sociales.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Japanese American women > Social conditions
Women household employees
American domestics > California > History.
Japanese > California.
California
United States, California > Minorities > Social life and customs.
United States, California > Minorities > Occupations.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Uncovers the relationship between Japanese American women's experience as domestic workers during the first seventy years of the twentieth century and larger historical forces: the transformation of the economy and labor market in Northern California and the process of labor migration and settlement in that locale. How did these forces affect women's work, both paid and unpaid, and what were their strategies for dealing with the conditions engendered by these forces?
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276) and index.
ISBN:9781439903506
1439903506

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