Now hiring : the feminization of work in the United States, 1900-1995 / Julia Kirk Blackwelder. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackwelder, Julia Kirk, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--United States--History--20th century.

Women.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 308 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Colleg Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Now Hiring, historian Julia Kirk Blackwelder adroitly traces the evolution of the American occupational structure, delineating the main lines of the development of the female work force and its interactions with education, family life, and social convention.

Through vignettes of individual women, given context by statistical data that place them within larger patterns of work and family life, Blackwelder presents her arguments "with flesh on them." She offers a pioneering consideration of non-paid employment as part of the picture of women and work and incorporates an intriguing case study of the evolution of the Girl Scout organization. Her consideration of the interaction of race, class, gender, and economic forces in the evolving roles of working women also makes an intellectual contribution to the field of women's studies.

In her conclusion, Blackwelder summarizes the effects of a century of change in women's employment and examines the social and economic challenges that will confront women and families of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Working "girls" at the turn of the century

The education of the working girl

Class, mobility, and women's work: the 1920s

Hard times and white-collar growth: the 1930s

Women answer the war call: the 1940s

Aftershock: the 1950s

Changing course: the 1960s and 1970s

Wins and losses: the 1980s and 1990s

Families and working women, 1900-1995

Conclusion: women, men, work, and families.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-298) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-38043-0