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Autore |
Kessler-Harris Alice |
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Titolo |
A Woman's Wage : Historical Meanings and Social Consequences / / Alice Kessler-Harris |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1990 |
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©1990 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-5853-2 |
0-8131-0551-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blazer Lectures |
Blazer lectures ; ; 1988 |
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Disciplina |
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331.4/2973/0904 |
331.429730904 |
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Soggetti |
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Wages - Women - United States - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes index. |
"The Blazer Lectures for 1988." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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