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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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.
Temas:
Women > Social conditions
Women household employees
Labor movement
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Mouvement ouvrier > New York (État) > Histoire.
Employees de maison > Syndicats > New York (État) > Histoire.
Employees de maison > New York (État) > Histoire.
Labor movement > New York (State) > History.
Women > New York (State) > Social conditions > History.
Women household employees > Labor unions > New York (State) > History.
Women household employees > New York (State) > History.
New York (State)
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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