| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 222 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- An "oeconomical society" -- "A new source of profit and support" -- "How strangely metamorphosed" -- "All the in-doors work" -- "The true economy of housekeeping" -- The political economy of housework -- The pastoralization of housework |
| Summary |
Over the course of a two hundred year period, women's domestic labor gradually lost its footing as a recognized aspect of economic life in America. The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer." This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labor in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States. Boydston argues that just as a capitalist economic order had first to teach that wages were the measure of a man's worth, it had at the same time, implicitly or explicitly, to teach that those who did not draw wages were dependent and not essential to the "real economy." Developing a striking account of the gender and labor systems that characterized industrializing America, Boydston explains how this effected the devaluation of women's unpaid labor |
| Analysis |
Housework Economics |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Housewives -- United States -- History
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Wages -- Housewives -- United States -- History
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Home economics -- United States -- History
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15.85 history of America.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Economic history
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Home economics
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Housewives
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Wages -- Housewives
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Hausarbeit
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Huishoudelijke arbeid.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140021
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| Subject |
United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
90031349 |
| ISBN |
9780199762576 |
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0199762570 |
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0585336350 |
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9780585336350 |
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