From Marriage to the Market [[electronic resource] ] : Transformation of Women's Lives and Work

• Autore: Thistle Susan
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4; 331.4097309045
• Soggetto topico: Women; Women - Employment - United States - History - 20th century; Work and family; Women - Employment - History - 20th century - United States; Women - Economic conditions - United States; Women - Social conditions - United States; Work and family - United States; Business & Economics; Labor & Workers' Economics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. A World Turned Inside Out; 2. Support for Women's Domestic Economy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; 3. The Breakdown of Women's Domestic Economy after World War II; 4. Economic Difficulties and a Contradictory Alliance; 5. The Formation of a Female Underclass; 6. The "New Economy" and the Transformation of Women's Work; 7. How and Why Mothers Have Been Shortchanged; 8. New Possibilities and Old Inequalities; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Presenting a comparative analysis of African American women's and white women's relationships to home and work, this study provides an overview of how this shift influences the shape of families and the American economy. It brings together the issues and statistics to put gender at the center of the social and economic changes.
• Titolo autorizzato: From Marriage to the Market
• ISBN: 0-520-93919-0; 1-60129-386-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783671203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II