num_pages: 384
description: Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the "women's separate sphere," and the respective influences of advertising, home economics, and women's entry into the workforce. Never Done begins by describing the household chores of nineteenth-century America: cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with boilers and flatirons, endless water-hauling and fire-tending, and so on. Strasser goes on to explain and explore how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Easing some tasks and eliminating others, new commercial processes inexorably altered women's daily lives and relationshipsâ€”with each other and with those they served.
language: English
title: Never Done: A History of American Housework
titlecomplete: Never Done: A History of American Housework
genres: American, History, Feminism, Womens, American History, Labor, Gender, Research, Womens Studies, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 215
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Holt Paperbacks