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A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
In this updated edition of a pathbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and t
Book Details
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- Publish Date: May 27th, 2014
- Pages: 196
- Language: English
- Edition: Updated - 0002
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.60in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9780813145136
- Categories: • Women's Studies• Labor & Industrial Relations• United States - General
About the Author
Kessler-Harris, Alice: - Alice Kessler-Harris is R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History and professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous books, including In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America; Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States; and A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman.
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Praise for this book
"Poses hard, pressing questions about wage justice and provides the historical perspective that is needed to answer them." -- New York Times Book Review
"Argues persuasively for a feminist viewpoint grounded in intense historical analysis. A challenging, thought-provoking book." -- Library Journal
"A rich collection of essays about the gendered construction of the wage in the twentieth-century United States." -- Women's Review of Books