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Making choices, making do : survival strategies of Black and White working-class women during the Great Depression /
"Making Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and White working class women's survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based primarily on analysis of employment histories and Depression-era interviews of 1,340 women in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and South Bend,...
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : My history and positionality
- Introduction
- Urban working-class daily lives and work in the 1920s
- Job deterioration and unemployment : "You just can't depend on a steady job at all"
- Employment strategies and their consequences
- The family economy : Daily survival and management of resources
- Interrupted expectations : Loyalty and conflict in the family economy
- Outside the family economy : "Most times I'd go to a friend"
- Relief : "I never thought I would come to this. I am so willing and anxious to work"
- Conclusion : Working-class women's class and race consciousness
- Appendix A: Interview sources
- Appendix B: Social scientists at the Women's Bureau
- Appendix C: The U.S. census
- Appendix D: Tables.