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



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Autore: Thistle Susan Visualizza persona
Titolo: From Marriage to the Market [[electronic resource] ] : Transformation of Women's Lives and Work Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-93919-0
1-60129-386-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910449885203321
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