| Description |
viii, 379 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
"Some kept the flag of feminist demands waving" : debates at international congresses on protecting women workers / Ulla Wikander -- Equality for men? Factory laws, protective legislation for women in Switzerland, and the Swiss effort for international protection / Regina Wecker -- "Let England blush" : protective labor legislation, 1820-1914 / Jane Lewis and Sonya O. Rose -- "All these forms of women's work which endanger public health and public welfare" : protective labor legislation for women in Germany, 1878-1914 / Sabine Schmitt -- Special labor protection for women in Austria, 1860-1918 / Margarete Grandner -- Women or workers? The 1889 Labor Law and the debate on protective legislation in the Netherlands / Ulla Jansz -- "Lagging far behind all civilized nations" : the debate over protective labor legislation for women in Denmark, 1899-1913 / Anna-Birte Ravn -- Beginning of a "masculine renaissance" : the debate on the 1909 prohibition against women's night work in Sweden / Lynn Karlsson -- Protection or equality? Debates on protective legislation in Norway / Gro Hagemann -- "To the most weak and needy" : women's protective labor legislation in Greece / Efi Avdela -- Paradise for working men but not working women : women's wagework and protective legislation in Australia, 1890-1914 / Renate Howe -- Paradox of motherhood : night work restrictions in the United States / Alice Kessler-Harris |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-363) and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- History.
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Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- History.
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Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- History.
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| Author |
Kessler-Harris, Alice.
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Lewis, Jane (Jane E.)
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Wikander, Ulla, 1940-
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| LC no. |
94044875 |
| ISBN |
0252021754 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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025206464X (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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