Earning power
Subtitle: women and work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930
By: Eileen V. Wallis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Urban west series
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780874178135
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Women employees -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Women -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Women in white-collar work; title: Servants and retail workers in Los Angeles; title: Working women and the limits of welfare capitalism; title: Race, class, and gender in Los Angeles's unions; title: Suffrage and politics in Los Angeles; title: Immigrant women, work, and Americanization; title: Wartime, protest, and new industries.