From marriage to the market : the transformation of women's lives and work /

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With its broad historical and theoretical sweep, clear charts and tables, and accessible writing, 'From Marriage to the Market' will be an essential resource for understanding the tumultuous changes currently transforming American society.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thistle, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Women > Employment > United States > History > 20th century.
Women > United States > Economic conditions.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Work and family > United States.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Travail et familles > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Employment
Women > Social conditions
Work and family
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A world turned inside out
  • Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II
  • Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance
  • The formation of a female underclass
  • The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work
  • How and why mothers have been shortchanged
  • New possibilities and old inequalities.

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