Gendering labor history
By: Alice Kessler-Harris.
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780252031496; 9780252073939
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- United States -- History; Women labor union members -- United States -- History; Working class women -- United States -- History; Women -- Employment -- Government policy -- United States -- History; Sex role in the work environment -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-356) and index.
Table of contents: title: Where are the organized women workers?; title: Organizing the unorganizable : three Jewish women and their union; title: Problems of coalition building : women and trade unions in the 1920s; title: Rose Schneiderman and the limits of women's trade unionism; title: Stratifying by sex : understanding the history of working women; title: Independence and virtue in the lives of wage-earning women in the United States, 1870-1930; title: A new agenda for American labor history : a gendered analysis and the question of class; title: Treating the male as "other" : redefining the parameters of labor history; title: Reconfiguring the private in the context of the public; title: The just price, the free market, and the value of women; title: The debate over equity for women in the workplace : recognizing differences; title: Gendered interventions : exploring the historical roots of U.S. social policy; title: The paradox of motherhood : night-work restrictions in the United States; title: Measures for masculinity : the American labor movement and welfare-state policy during the Great Depression; title: In pursuit of economic citizenship; title: Reframing the history of women's wage labor : challenges of a global perspective; title: History is public or nothing : learning how to keep illusions in our future.