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Author Kessler-Harris, Alice, author.

Title A woman's wage : historical meanings and social consequences / Alice Kessler-Harris
Published Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [1990]
©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 168 pages)
Series Blazer lectures ; 1988
Blazer lectures ; 1988.
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
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Subject Wages -- Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Wages -- Women
Lohn
Geschichte
Frau
Salarissen.
Vrouwenarbeid.
Wages -- Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 89048812
ISBN 081310551X
9780813105512
9780813158532
0813158532