A Woman's Wage : Historical Meanings and Social Consequences / Alice Kessler-Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kessler-Harris, Alice.

Series:

Blazer Lectures

Blazer lectures ; 1988

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Wages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

Summary:

In this pathbreaking book, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth century, focusing on three sets of issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument over equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the current debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Wage Conceived: Value and Need as Measures of a Woman's Worth

2. Law and a Living: The Gendered Content of "Free Labor" in the Progressive Period

3. Providers: An Exploration of Gender Ideology

4. The Double Meaning of Equal Pay

5. The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women

Notes:

Includes index.

"The Blazer Lectures for 1988."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813158532

0813158532

9780813105512

081310551X

OCLC:

70781814

Publisher Number:

2027/heb02517 hdl