Class, Sex, and the Woman Worker
Author : Milton Cantor
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Women
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Author : Milton Cantor
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Milton Cantor
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Women
ISBN : 9780313227332
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
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Author : Milton Cantor
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 1977-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
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History of woman workers in the USA, with particular reference to their social class and trade unionization - studies low income urban area women, Italian women, women's rights, employment and education of women, etc. References and statistical tables.
Author : Dorothy Sue Cobble
Publisher : ILR Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Compilation of essays on women's inequalities, unions and sexual politics, family policies, and organising women's work in the United States. Focuses on the feminisation of work and workers, and class injustice. Argues that the growth of collective movements is necessary in order to improve the lot of working women, for example through local-global connections among female immigrant workers and the representation of informal workers.
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Page : 253 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
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Author : Janice Ruth Fine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801472572
As national policy is debated, a locally based grassroots movement is taking the initiative to assist millions of immigrants in the American workforce facing poor pay, bad working conditions, and few prospects to advance to better jobs. Fine takes a comprehensive look at the rising phenomenon of worker centers, fast-growing institutions that improve the lives of immigrant workers through service advocacy and organizing.—from publisher information.
Author : Christine Stansell
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0307826503
In this brilliant and vivid study of life in New York City during the years between the creation of the republic and the Civil War, a distinguished historian explores the position of men and women in both the poor and middle classes, the conflict between women of the laboring poor and those of the genteel classes who tried to help them and the ways in which laboring women traced out unforeseen possibilities for themselves in work and in politics. Christine Stansell shows how a new concept of womanhood took shape in America as middle-class women constituted themselves the moral guardians of their families and of the nation, while poor workingwomen, cut adrift from the family ties that both sustained and oppressed them, were subverting—through their sudden entry into the working and political worlds outside the home—the strict notions of female domesticity and propriety, of “woman’s place” and “woman’s nature,” that were central to the flowering and the image of bourgeois life in America. Here we have a passionate and enlightening portrait of New York during the years in which it was becoming a center of world capitalist development, years in which it was evolving in dramatic ways, becoming the city it fundamentally is. And we have, as well, a radically illuminating depiction of a class conflict in which the dialectic of female vice and virtue was a central issue. City of Women is a prime work of scholarship, the first full-scale work by a major new voice in the fields of American and urban history.
Author : Lindsey German
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Christine Stansell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252014819
Before the Civil War, a new idea of womanhood took shape in America in general and in the Northeast in particular. Women of the propertied classes assumed the mantle of moral guardians of their families and the nation. Laboring women, by contrast, continued to suffer from the oppressions of sex and class. In fact, their very existence troubled their more prosperous sisters, for the impoverished female worker violated dearly held genteel precepts of 'woman's nature' and 'woman's place.' City of Women delves into the misfortunes that New York City's laboring women suffered and the problems that resulted. Looking at how and why a community of women workers came into existence, Christine Stansell analyzes the social conflicts surrounding laboring women and they social pressure these conflicts brought to bear on others. The result is a fascinating journey into economic relations and cultural forms that influenced working women's lives--one that reveals at last the female city concealed within America's first great metropolis.