A Woman's Wage : Historical Meanings and Social Consequences /

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This study explores the changing social ideas that have determined wages for women during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It investigates how wage exists as a social construct that influences the way women are compensated for their work, creating the boundaries between what is deemed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kessler-Harris, Alice (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Edición:Updated edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wages > Women.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Workplace Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Salaires > Femmes > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Wages > Women > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The Wage Conceived; 2. Law and a Living; 3. Providers; 4. The Double Meaning of Equal Pay; 5. The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women; 6. A Woman's Wage, Redux; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.

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