Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
by Alice Kessler-Harris
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.40973
EAN: 9780195157093
ISBN: 0195157095
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 414
Publication Date: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Summary: Thorough and Vastly Informative
Comment: I've been reading US women's history for a couple of years now,
working on background for a novel, and I have seen nothing that
matches this book for careful, detailed exposition of the role of
women in the workplace. I'm most familiar with the period from
1880 to 1910, and Kessler-Harris covers that era thoroughly and
convincingly. Reading about the earlier years, though, has greatly
increased my understanding of the period I've been studying.
Kessler-Harris shows how paternalistic beliefs about "woman's
place," and views of women as weak and basically stupid, have from
the beginning deeply influenced the lives of women of all classes, but
she also shows how even the development of new machinery in
factories was shaped by the needs of employers to find cheap
workers--who were, of course, women.
I wish women would read this book. Talk about
consciousness-raising!
Having done a good deal of historical research with primary sources, on other subjects and in other periods, I know Kessler-Harris has been thorough and conscientious. She also writes very well. I'm going to buy the new edition, because whatever she has to say will be fascinating.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent book!
Comment: This excellent book describes how women have always worked in what is today the USA. Well written with good examples it tells the story of how women moved from working primarily at home industries through early factory days (and how factories were made acceptable and then degraded into sweat shops and worse). It continues the story through the 19th and 20th centuries, discussing how often public perceptions and rhetoric conflicted with actual work practices. I am very glad it is out in a new edition and that a new generation will have easy access to it.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Thorough and Vastly Informative
Comment: I've been reading US women's history for a couple of years now,
working on background for a novel, and I have seen nothing that
matches this book for careful, detailed exposition of the role of
women in the workplace. I'm most familiar with the period from
1880 to 1910, and Kessler-Harris covers that era thoroughly and
convincingly. Reading about the earlier years, though, has greatly
increased my understanding of the period I've been studying.
Kessler-Harris shows how paternalistic beliefs about "woman's
place," and views of women as weak and basically stupid, have from
the beginning deeply influenced the lives of women of all classes, but
she also shows how even the development of new machinery in
factories was shaped by the needs of employers to find cheap
workers--who were, of course, women.
I wish women would read this book. Talk about
consciousness-raising!
Having done a good deal of historical research with primary sources, on other subjects and in other periods, I know Kessler-Harris has been thorough and conscientious. She also writes very well. I'm going to buy the new edition, because whatever she has to say will be fascinating.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent book!
Comment: This excellent book describes how women have always worked in what is today the USA. Well written with good examples it tells the story of how women moved from working primarily at home industries through early factory days (and how factories were made acceptable and then degraded into sweat shops and worse). It continues the story through the 19th and 20th centuries, discussing how often public perceptions and rhetoric conflicted with actual work practices. I am very glad it is out in a new edition and that a new generation will have easy access to it.
First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark book, the author has updated the original and written a new Afterword.
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