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Work Engendered : Toward a New History of American Labor /

In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The fourteen original essays brought together here...

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Otros Autores: Baron, Ava
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Gender and labor history : learning from the past, looking to the future / Ava Baron
  • An "other" side of gender antagonism at work : men, boys, and the remasculinization of printers' work, 1830-1920 / Ava Baron
  • Southern honor, southern dishonor : managerial ideology and the construction of gender, race, and class relations in southern industry / Delores Janiewski
  • Manhood and the market : the politics of gender and class among the textile workers of Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1880 / Mary H. Blewett
  • "A man's dwelling house is his castle" : tenement house cigarmaking and the judicial imperative / Eileen Boris
  • "The voice of virile labor" : labor militancy, community solidarity, and gender identity among Tampa's Latin workers, 1880-1921 / Nancy A. Hewitt.
  • Gender, self, and work in the life insurance industry, 1880-1930 / Angel Kwolek-Folland
  • "Give the boys a trade" : gender and job choice in the 1890s / Ileen A. DeVault
  • "Drawing the line" : the construction of a gendered work force in the food service industry / Dorothy Sue Cobble
  • Private eyes, public women : images of class and sex in the urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913-1915 / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
  • Gender, consumer organizing, and the Seattle labor movement, 1919-1929 / Dana Frank
  • Paths of unionization : community, bureaucracy, and gender in the Minneapolis labor movement of the 1930s / Elizabeth Faue
  • The faces of gender : sex segregation and work relations at Philco, 1928-1938 / Patricia Cooper
  • Time out of mind : the UAW'S response to female labor laws and mandatory overtime in the 1960s / Nancy Gabin.