Title: Women have always worked :
Authors: Kessler-Harris, Alice.
Date: 1981
Publisher: Feminist Press ;
Physical description: xiii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: H
Abstract: TRACES THE INVOLVEMENT OF POOR, MINORITY, AND MIDDLE CLASS AMERICAN WOMEN IN HOUSEHOLD WORK, WAGE LABOR, SOCIAL REFORM, AND DEPRESSION AND WARTIME LABOR FORCES.
Contents: Work in the colonies -- The success ethic -- Photo Feature -- The working lives of women in the U.S. -- Woman's separate sphere -- Bread and roses -- The colonial household -- The household transformed -- The affluent housewife -- Photo feature -- taking care of family needs -- Patterns of poverty -- Post-war prosperity -- Creating a labor force -- The domestic code -- From family worker to wage worker -- Unenviable jobs -- Photo feature -- Women in the paid work force -- What is to be done? -- Streamlining operations-- Moral reform -- Enlarging women's sphere -- Social housekeeping -- The helping professions -- Photo feature -- working to reform the world -- Women as housewives -- Women as consumers -- Depression and war -- Contemporary patterns -- Fighting discrimination -- Photo feature -- a changing and growing labor force -- Looking into the future.