| Description |
xvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: Never Done -- Daily Bread -- Out of the Frying Pan -- The Home Fires -- At the Flick of A Switch -- Fetch a Pail of Water -- Blue Monday -- A Stitch in Time -- The Boarder -- Mistress and Maid -- Redeeming Woman's Profession -- The Business of Housekeeping -- When the Bough Breaks -- Selling Mrs. Consumer -- Quick and Easy -- You Deserve a Break -- Life on the Market |
| Summary |
"The first complete history of the American housewife, Never Done is a lively and authoritative survey of American household technology and ideas about housework. Richly illustrated and using a wide variety of sources...Susan Strasser demonstrates how post-Civil War industrialization transformed the work of the household, lightening some tasks and eliminating the need for others, while introducing commercial products, such as textiles, that supplanted both the inadequate makeshifts and the fine crafts of home industry. These technological changes inexorably affected women's daily lives, transforming their working relationships with each other and with the people they served." -- front flap of dust jacket |
| Analysis |
Home economics History United States |
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Home economics United States History |
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Housewives History United States |
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Housewives United States History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [313]-316 |
| Notes |
Western Association of Women Historians Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, 1983 |
| Subject |
Home economics -- United States -- History.
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Housewives -- United States -- History.
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| LC no. |
81048234 |
| ISBN |
0394510240 |
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0394708415 (paperback) |
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