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Author Tentler, Leslie Woodcock.

Title Wage-earning women : industrial work and family life in the United States, 1900-1930 / Leslie Woodcock Tentler.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.

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Description 1 online resource (266 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note "A Galaxy book."
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index.
Summary Writing with a keen eye for detail as well as a real empathy with the first generation of wage-earning women, Tentler reconstructs the day-to-day realities of life on the job, in the home, and in the industrial neighborhoods of major cities.
Contents Introduction; PART ONE: The World of the Job; I: Women's Wages; II: "Women's Work" and Work Environments; III: The Work Community; PART TWO: Beyond the Job: Wage Earning and Family Roles; IV: The Working-Class Daughter; V: "On Their Own"; VI: The Married Woman Worker; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
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Subject Women -- Employment -- United States -- History.
Women -- Employment.
United States.
History.
Women -- United States -- History.
Women.
Sex role.
Sex role.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Gender roles.
Other Form: Print version: Tentler, Leslie Woodcock. Wage-earning women. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982 9780195032116 (OCoLC)8901345
ISBN 9780198020288 (electronic book)
0198020287 (electronic book)
1280522917
9781280522918