Description |
1 online resource (xii, 168 pages) |
Series |
Blazer lectures ; 1988 |
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Blazer lectures ; 1988.
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Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Wage Conceived: Value and Need as Measures of a Woman's Worth; 2. Law and a Living: The Gendered Content of ""Free Labor"" in the Progressive Period; 3. Providers: An Exploration of Gender Ideology in the 1930's; 4. The Double Meaning of Equal Pay; 5. The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women; Notes; Index |
Summary |
In this pathbreaking book, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth century, focusing on three sets of issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument over equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the current debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories |
Analysis |
Wages Women United States History 20th century |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0. Uk |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Wages -- Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Wages -- Women
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Lohn
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Geschichte
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Frau
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Salarissen.
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Vrouwenarbeid.
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Wages -- Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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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. |
89048812 |
ISBN |
081310551X |
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9780813105512 |
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9780813158532 |
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0813158532 |
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