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    • Author/Creator:Kessler-Harris, Alice.
    • Title:Gendering labor history / Alice Kessler-Harris.
    • ISBN:0252031490 (cloth : alk. paper)
      9780252031496 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0252073932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      9780252073939 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Published/Created:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
    • Physical Description:374 p. ; 24 cm.
    • Links:Table of contents only
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    • Format:Book
    • Series:The working class in American history
      Working class in American history.
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-356) and index.
    • Contents:Where are the organized women workers? -- Organizing the unorganizable : three Jewish women and their union -- Problems of coalition building : women and trade unions in the 1920s -- Rose Schneiderman and the limits of women's trade unionism -- Stratifying by sex : notes on the history of working women -- Independence and virtue in the lives of wage-earning women in the United States, 1870-1930 -- A new agenda for American labor history : a gendered analysis and the question of class -- Treating the male as "other" : redefining the parameters of labor history -- Reconfiguring the private in the context of the public -- The just price, the free market, and the value of women -- The debate over equity for women in the workplace : recognizing differences -- Gendered interventions : exploring the historical roots of U.S. social policy -- The paradox of motherhood : night-work restrictions in the United States -- Measures for masculinity : the American labor movement and welfare-state policy during the Great Depression -- In pursuit of economic citizenship -- Reframing the history of women's wage labor : challenges of a global perspective -- History is public or nothing : learning how to keep illusions in our future.
    • Subjects:Women--Employment--United States--History.
      Women labor union members--United States--History.
      Working class women--United States--History.
      Women--Employment--Government policy--United States--History.
      Sex role in the work environment--United States--History.