Unprotected labor : household workers, politics, and middle-class reform in New York, 1870-1940
by
May, Vanessa H.
Title
:
Unprotected labor : household workers, politics, and middle-class reform in New York, 1870-1940
Author
:
May, Vanessa H.
ISBN
:
9780807877906
9781469603094
Publication Information
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) : illustrations
Abstract
:
Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, this book explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labour protections that formed the foundation of the US welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, it assesses middle-class women's reform programmes as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions.
Subject Term
:
Women household employees -- New York (State) -- History.
Women household employees -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- History.
Women -- New York (State) -- Social conditions -- History.
Labor movement -- New York (State) -- History.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 375585-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |