| Description |
x, 380 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 323-369. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Considerations in the study of women and work / The Women and Work Research Group -- Part I. Structures, patterns, and ideologies -- What's happening to women's employment : issues for women's labor struggles in the 1980s-1990s / Natalie J. Sokoloff -- Racial ethnic women's labor : the intersection of race, gender, and class oppression / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Technology and work degradation : effects of office automation on women clerical workers / Roslyn L. Feldberg and Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Devaluing women's work : the undercount of women's employment in 1900 and 1980 / Christine E. Bose -- "Cogs to the wheels" : the ideology of women's work in mid-19th-century fiction / Amy Gilman -- Part II. Links between the public and private spheres -- The new patriarchy / Carol A. Brown -- The struggles of superwoman / Myra Marx Ferree -- Reconceptualizing family, work, and labor organizing : working women in Troy, 1860-1890 / Carole Turbin -- A living wage is for men only : minimum wage legislation for women, 1910-1925 / Susan Lehrer -- Part III. Consciousness and resistance -- Searching for the causes of sexual harassment : an examination of two prototypes / Peggy Crull -- The dialectics of wage work : Japanese-American women and domestic service, 1905-1940 / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Hidden resistance : women shipyard workers after World War II / Amy Kesselman -- Women and trade unions : are we asking the right questions? / Roslyn L. Feldberg. |
| Subject |
Sex discrimination in employment -- United States -- History.
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Sex role in the work environment -- United States -- History.
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Sex discrimination against women -- United States -- History.
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Women -- Employment -- United States -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1850-1987
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| Added Author |
Bose, Christine E.
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Feldberg, Roslyn.
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Sokoloff, Natalie J.
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Women and Work Research Group.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hidden aspects of women's work. New York : Praeger, 1987 (OCoLC)608890103 |
| ISBN |
0275924157 alkaline paper $39.85 (est.) |
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9780275924157 alkaline paper |
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