Peasant Maids, City Women - From the European Countryside to Urban America

Summary

From the 1850s to the 1920s, women were 30 to 40 percent of all immigrants to the United States and their migration experiences were shaped by similar social, economic, demographic, and cultural forces. In Peasant Maids, City Women, a truly...

Product details

• Authors: Deidre Mageean
• Assisted by: Christiane Harzig (Editor), Christiane Asst Ed Harzig (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.1997
• EAN: 9780801432736
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-3273-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 907 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Soziologie: Arbeit und Beruf