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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786050003321

Autore

Eisenstein Sarah

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-24501-4

0-203-10351-3

1-136-24502-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

305.420973

Soggetti

Women - Employment - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1983.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Introductory essays -- pt. II. Essays in the study of working women's consciousness.

Sommario/riassunto

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