A Woman's Wage : Historical Meanings and Social Consequences / / Alice Kessler-Harris

• Autore: Kessler-Harris Alice
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1990; ©1990
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4/2973/0904; 331.429730904
• Soggetto topico: Wages - Women - United States - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Includes index.; "The Blazer Lectures for 1988."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Woman's Wage
• ISBN: 0-8131-5853-2; 0-8131-0551-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248081903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blazer Lectures