Women Have Always Worked - A Concise History

Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Emerita at Columbia University and a professor at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Her many books include In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America and A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences.

List of contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

1The Meaning of Work in Women's Lives

2 Household Labor

3 Working for Wages

4 Women's Social Mission

5 Changing the Shape of the Workforce

6 Equality and Freedom at Odds

Notes

Index

About the author

Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Emerita at Columbia University and a professor at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Her many books include In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America and A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Kessler-Harris
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780252083587
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08358-7
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Working Class in American History; Working Class in American Hist; Working Class in American History; Working Class in American Hist
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education