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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Auteur principal: May, Vanessa H.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
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Résumé: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 US welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, it assesses middle-class women's reform programmes as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (262 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469603094

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