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Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States

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Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States - Kessler-Harris, Alice
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First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage ...

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Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States 2003, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195157093

20th Anniversary edition

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