Women Adrift
Subtitle: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 (Women in Culture and Society Series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 12, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780226521985
Subjects: Employment & unemployment; Population & demography; Social history; Women's studies; Employment Of Women; Women In The U.S.; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Sociology; USA; General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
First sentence: In Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie, published in 1900, eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber decides to leave her family and kin.