America's working women /compiled and edited by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby.
Description
Before 1820. Paid and unpaid labor ; Servitude. -- 1820-1865. Slaves and free blacks ; The contested land ; Factory life ; Controversy about women's work. -- 1865-1890. Industry ; Coping with new conditions. -- 1890-1920. Migrants and immigrants ; Rural labor ; Industrial labor ; The tradition of struggle. -- 1920-1940. Nonindustrial work -- The Depression ; Working women organize ; Black women against racism ; Using the state. -- 1940-1955. The war ; Feminine mystique and feminine reality -- 1955-Present. Continuing patterns ; Deindustrialization ; The movements ; New initiatives.
xxii, 408 pages, ix pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates :illustrations ;24 cm