Give us bread but give us roses : working women's consciousness in the United States, 1890 to the First World War / Sarah Eisenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenstein, Sarah, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Women's history.

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--United States--History.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rooted in the printed sources of the period, this book reconstructs the attitudes of a pioneer generation of young women to the conflicts brought about by their new experience of employment outside their homes, and to changes in work and family relationships. In the 1890s and after the still prevalent Victorian conception of respectable womanhood excluded wage-earning women. Yet working-class women themselves did not acquiesce in this judgement, and Eisenstein's exploration of Victorian ideas about women and work - using the contemporary middle-class literature of advice and prescription to

Contents:

pt. I. Introductory essays

pt. II. Essays in the study of working women's consciousness.

Notes:

First published in 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-24501-4

0-203-10351-3

1-136-24502-2

9780203103517

OCLC:

827208911