From marriage to the market
Subtitle: the transformation of women's lives and work
By: Susan Thistle.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women -- United States -- Economic conditions.; Women -- United States -- Social conditions.; Work and family -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A world turned inside out; title: Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; title: The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II; title: Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance; title: The formation of a female underclass; title: The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work; title: How and why mothers have been shortchanged; title: New possibilities and old inequalities.