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Unprotected Labor : Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940 /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: May, Vanessa H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumario: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 US welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, it assesses middle-class women's reform programmes as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (262 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469603094