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From marriage to the market : the transformation of women's lives and work / Susan Thistle.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thistle, Susan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--United States--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Women--United States--Economic conditions.
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- Work and family--United States.
- Work and family.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presenting a comparative analysis of African American women's and white women's relationships to home and work, this study provides an overview of how this shift influences the shape of families and the American economy. It brings together the issues and statistics to put gender at the center of the social and economic changes.
- Contents:
- A world turned inside out
- Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II
- Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance
- The formation of a female underclass
- The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work
- How and why mothers have been shortchanged
- New possibilities and old inequalities.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-286) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-93919-0
- 1-60129-386-0
- OCLC:
- 475990174
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