Nancy Woloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1094750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Woloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Woloch |
| SIGNATURE | WOLOCH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women and the American Experience
The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women’s experience and underscores the roles that women have played as agents of change. Moving women’s lives from the margins of history into the spotlight, the text draws links between women’s experience and traditional facets of history, such as…
Because of Sex
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, is now a central topic in women’s labor history. Recent works by Nancy MacLean, Serena Mayeri, and Katherine Turk, among others, draw attention to this crucial piece of labor law. The history of Title VII is full of surprises. The amendment that added “sex” to Title VII in 1964, last minute and contested, w…
A Class by Herself
This book explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws—from their roots in progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the feminist…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter examines the nature of protective law, the crucial historical issue of overtime, and public policy after the dismantling of women-only protective laws. Over the course of a century, protective laws for women workers left a double imprint on U.S. history. The laws set precedents that led to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and to modern labor law; they also sustained classification by sex, a tradition of gendered law th…
Different versus Equal
This chapter revisits Adkins and considers the feud over protective laws that arose in the women's movement in the 1920s. The clash between friends and foes of the Equal Rights Amendment—and over the protective laws for women workers that it would surely invalidate—fueled women's politics in the 1920s. Both sides claimed precedent-setting accomplishments. In 1923, the National Woman's Party proposed the historic ERA, which incurred conflict that …
Trading Places
This chapter focuses on the rise of feminism in the 1960s and the downfall of single-sex protective laws. Protection's downfall rested not on the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), but rather on the courts—on women employees who sued for equal rights in federal courts under Title VII and the lawyers who represented them; on pressure from feminist organizations, notably the National Organization for Women (NOW), that supported the p…
Transformations
This chapter traces the changes in federal and state protective policies from the New Deal through the 1950s. In contrast to the setbacks of the 1920s, the New Deal revived the prospects of protective laws and of their proponents. The victory of the minimum wage for women workers in federal court in 1937 and the passage in 1938 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which extended labor standards to men, represented a peak of protectionist achie…
Ryan Patrick Murphy. Deregulating Desire
That the past three decades of economic change have hobbled the labor movement comes as no surprise. To view this process from the vantage point of one group of airline workers is a revelation. Ryan Patrick Murphy’s Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice explores the history of flight attendants from the 1970s to the twenty-first century. His study covers labor history, business history, and cultura…
A Class by Herself
A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws—from their roots in progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the…
Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965
Linda Eisenmann explores efforts to promote women's roles in higher education in the two decades after World War II. Women off that era received mixed messages: to stay home and to relieve shortages in the labor force. Caught between domestic ideals and expanded economic options, married women often took jobs (almost one-third worked). Higher education contributed to the mixed messages that women received. Women's advocates in academic life pushe…
Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work
Mothers Who Must Earn
Textbooks in U.S. Women's History
On Account of Sex
Journal Article On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues, 1945–1968. By Cynthia Harrison. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xxii + 337 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $10.95.) Get access Nancy Woloch Nancy Woloch Barnard College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 740–741, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079675 Published: 01 Sept…
Women Adrift
Journal Article Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880–1930. ByJoanneJ. Meyerowitz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xxiii + 224 pp. $29.95.) Get access Nancy Woloch Nancy Woloch Barnard College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 619–620, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908056 Published: 01 September 1989
The Feminization of American Culture
Journal Article The Feminization of American Culture. By Ann Douglas. (New York: Knopf, 1977. x + 403 pp. Appendixes, notes, and index. $15.00.) Get access Nancy Woloch Nancy Woloch Manhattan College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 4, March 1978, Pages 1102–1103, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890771 Published: 01 March 1978
The Feminization of American Culture
Journal Article The Feminization of American Culture. By Ann Douglas. (New York: Knopf, 1977. x + 403 pp. Appendixes, notes, and index. $15.00.) Get access Nancy Woloch Nancy Woloch Manhattan College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 4, March 1978, Pages 1102–1103, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890771 Published: 01 March 1978
Women Adrift
Journal Article Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880–1930. ByJoanneJ. Meyerowitz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xxiii + 224 pp. $29.95.) Get access Nancy Woloch Nancy Woloch Barnard College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 619–620, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908056 Published: 01 September 1989
On Account of Sex
Journal Article On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues, 1945–1968. By Cynthia Harrison. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xxii + 337 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $10.95.) Get access Nancy Woloch Nancy Woloch Barnard College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 740–741, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079675 Published: 01 Sept…
Textbooks in U.S. Women's History
Mothers Who Must Earn
Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work
Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965
Linda Eisenmann explores efforts to promote women's roles in higher education in the two decades after World War II. Women off that era received mixed messages: to stay home and to relieve shortages in the labor force. Caught between domestic ideals and expanded economic options, married women often took jobs (almost one-third worked). Higher education contributed to the mixed messages that women received. Women's advocates in academic life pushe…
A Class by Herself
A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws—from their roots in progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the…
A Class by Herself
This book explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws—from their roots in progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the feminist…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter examines the nature of protective law, the crucial historical issue of overtime, and public policy after the dismantling of women-only protective laws. Over the course of a century, protective laws for women workers left a double imprint on U.S. history. The laws set precedents that led to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and to modern labor law; they also sustained classification by sex, a tradition of gendered law th…
Different versus Equal
This chapter revisits Adkins and considers the feud over protective laws that arose in the women's movement in the 1920s. The clash between friends and foes of the Equal Rights Amendment—and over the protective laws for women workers that it would surely invalidate—fueled women's politics in the 1920s. Both sides claimed precedent-setting accomplishments. In 1923, the National Woman's Party proposed the historic ERA, which incurred conflict that …
Trading Places
This chapter focuses on the rise of feminism in the 1960s and the downfall of single-sex protective laws. Protection's downfall rested not on the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), but rather on the courts—on women employees who sued for equal rights in federal courts under Title VII and the lawyers who represented them; on pressure from feminist organizations, notably the National Organization for Women (NOW), that supported the p…
Transformations
This chapter traces the changes in federal and state protective policies from the New Deal through the 1950s. In contrast to the setbacks of the 1920s, the New Deal revived the prospects of protective laws and of their proponents. The victory of the minimum wage for women workers in federal court in 1937 and the passage in 1938 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which extended labor standards to men, represented a peak of protectionist achie…
Ryan Patrick Murphy. Deregulating Desire
That the past three decades of economic change have hobbled the labor movement comes as no surprise. To view this process from the vantage point of one group of airline workers is a revelation. Ryan Patrick Murphy’s Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice explores the history of flight attendants from the 1970s to the twenty-first century. His study covers labor history, business history, and cultura…
Because of Sex
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, is now a central topic in women’s labor history. Recent works by Nancy MacLean, Serena Mayeri, and Katherine Turk, among others, draw attention to this crucial piece of labor law. The history of Title VII is full of surprises. The amendment that added “sex” to Title VII in 1964, last minute and contested, w…
Women and the American Experience
The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women’s experience and underscores the roles that women have played as agents of change. Moving women’s lives from the margins of history into the spotlight, the text draws links between women’s experience and traditional facets of history, such as…
Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Wage (5 works)