Ileen A Devault
Biographic Data
| ID | 1133767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ileen A Devault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ileen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Devault |
| SIGNATURE | DEVAULT I A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Everybody Works but Father”: Why the Census Misdirected Historians of Women's Employment
Because the US Census Bureau changed the way they reported workers’ marital status, the subfield of US women's labor history unwittingly perpetuated a key misinterpretation of women's labor force participation, allowing historians to believe that women in the workforce between 1880 and 1920 were overwhelmingly young and single women: the daughters of their families rather than the mothers and wives. This change in census reporting was reinforced …
Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
Journal Article Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America Get access Miriam Frank. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014. xviii, 221 pp. $54.50.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 310–311, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav206 Published: 01 June 2015
Family wages: The roles of wives and mothers in U.S. working-class survival strategies, 1880–1930
The common image of a female wage earner in the U.S. in the decades around the turn of the 20th century is that of a young, single woman: the daughter of her family. However, the wives and mothers of these families also made important economic contributions to their families' economies. This paper argues that we need to rethink our evaluation of the economic roles played by ever-married women in working-class families. Using a range of government…
Too Hard on the Women, Especially”: Striking Together for Women Workers' Issues
This essay draws upon a larger study of over forty strikes which involved both male and female strikers in the United States between the years 1887 and 1903. Here the focus of analysis is on those strikes which began with demands raised by women workers. The essay examines the nature of women workers' demands, the ways in which cooperation with male co-workers altered those demands, and the affect that formal union involvement had on women strike…
Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980
Journal Article Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980. By Venus Green. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. xvi, 370 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8223-2554-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8223-2573-X.) Get access Ileen A. DeVault Ileen A. DeVault Cornell University Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002…
We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction
Journal Article We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction. By Susan Eisenberg. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1998. xii, 216 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8014-3360-6.) Get access Ileen A. DeVault Ileen A. DeVault Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 331–332, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567560 Published:…
Narratives Serially Constructed and Lived: Ethnicity in Cross-Gender Strikes 1887–1903
On 1 August 1893, already feeling the pinch of economic downturn, management at the Pray, Small & Co. shoe factory in Auburn, Maine, posted new wages for its employees. Twelve days later, facing their first lower pay checks, female stitchers in the factory walked off their jobs. The union which represented the stitchers declared the shop non-union a week later and called for all of its members to join the stitchers' strike. Only about a dozen mal…
Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century
From 1909-1914 the Survey brought together statisticans, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, and city planners to study the effects of industrialization on the city of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Surveyed examines the accuracy and the impact of the influential Survey, emphasizing its role in the social reform movement of the early twentieth century
The Borrowers: Culture and Necessity in Immigrant Women's History
The Invisible Seen: What Is Women's Work
Research Article| January 01 1994 The Invisible Seen: What Is Women's Work? Ileen A. DeVault Ileen A. DeVault Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 188–195. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-58-188 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ileen A. DeVault; The Invisible Seen: What Is Women's Work?. Radical History Review 1 January 1994; 1994 (58): 18…
Mobility and Mill Towns: Moving Up or Moving Out
The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 2: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90
Journal Article The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 2: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887–90. Ed. by Stuart B. Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf and The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 3: Unrest and Depression, 1891–94. Ed. by Stuart B. Kaufman, Peter J. Albert Get access Richard Oestreicher Richard Oestreicher University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh.
Eight Berkshire Conference on the History of Women: “Crossing Boundaries”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
Journal Article Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh. By Ileen A. DeVault. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. xiv + 194 pp. $21.50.) Get access Lizabeth Cohen Lizabeth Cohen Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1113–1114, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078901 Publish…
Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II
Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
Journal Article Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America Get access Miriam Frank. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014. xviii, 221 pp. $54.50.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 310–311, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav206 Published: 01 June 2015
Narratives Serially Constructed and Lived: Ethnicity in Cross-Gender Strikes 1887–1903
On 1 August 1893, already feeling the pinch of economic downturn, management at the Pray, Small & Co. shoe factory in Auburn, Maine, posted new wages for its employees. Twelve days later, facing their first lower pay checks, female stitchers in the factory walked off their jobs. The union which represented the stitchers declared the shop non-union a week later and called for all of its members to join the stitchers' strike. Only about a dozen mal…
Too Hard on the Women, Especially”: Striking Together for Women Workers' Issues
This essay draws upon a larger study of over forty strikes which involved both male and female strikers in the United States between the years 1887 and 1903. Here the focus of analysis is on those strikes which began with demands raised by women workers. The essay examines the nature of women workers' demands, the ways in which cooperation with male co-workers altered those demands, and the affect that formal union involvement had on women strike…
Family wages: The roles of wives and mothers in U.S. working-class survival strategies, 1880–1930
The common image of a female wage earner in the U.S. in the decades around the turn of the 20th century is that of a young, single woman: the daughter of her family. However, the wives and mothers of these families also made important economic contributions to their families' economies. This paper argues that we need to rethink our evaluation of the economic roles played by ever-married women in working-class families. Using a range of government…
Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh.
Eight Berkshire Conference on the History of Women: “Crossing Boundaries”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
Journal Article Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh. By Ileen A. DeVault. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. xiv + 194 pp. $21.50.) Get access Lizabeth Cohen Lizabeth Cohen Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1113–1114, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078901 Publish…
Mobility and Mill Towns: Moving Up or Moving Out
The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 2: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90
Journal Article The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 2: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887–90. Ed. by Stuart B. Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf and The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 3: Unrest and Depression, 1891–94. Ed. by Stuart B. Kaufman, Peter J. Albert Get access Richard Oestreicher Richard Oestreicher University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930
The Borrowers: Culture and Necessity in Immigrant Women's History
The Invisible Seen: What Is Women's Work
Research Article| January 01 1994 The Invisible Seen: What Is Women's Work? Ileen A. DeVault Ileen A. DeVault Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 188–195. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-58-188 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ileen A. DeVault; The Invisible Seen: What Is Women's Work?. Radical History Review 1 January 1994; 1994 (58): 18…
Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century
From 1909-1914 the Survey brought together statisticans, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, and city planners to study the effects of industrialization on the city of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Surveyed examines the accuracy and the impact of the influential Survey, emphasizing its role in the social reform movement of the early twentieth century
We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction
Journal Article We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction. By Susan Eisenberg. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1998. xii, 216 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8014-3360-6.) Get access Ileen A. DeVault Ileen A. DeVault Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 331–332, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567560 Published:…
Narratives Serially Constructed and Lived: Ethnicity in Cross-Gender Strikes 1887–1903
On 1 August 1893, already feeling the pinch of economic downturn, management at the Pray, Small & Co. shoe factory in Auburn, Maine, posted new wages for its employees. Twelve days later, facing their first lower pay checks, female stitchers in the factory walked off their jobs. The union which represented the stitchers declared the shop non-union a week later and called for all of its members to join the stitchers' strike. Only about a dozen mal…
Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980
Journal Article Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980. By Venus Green. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. xvi, 370 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8223-2554-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8223-2573-X.) Get access Ileen A. DeVault Ileen A. DeVault Cornell University Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002…
Too Hard on the Women, Especially”: Striking Together for Women Workers' Issues
This essay draws upon a larger study of over forty strikes which involved both male and female strikers in the United States between the years 1887 and 1903. Here the focus of analysis is on those strikes which began with demands raised by women workers. The essay examines the nature of women workers' demands, the ways in which cooperation with male co-workers altered those demands, and the affect that formal union involvement had on women strike…
Family wages: The roles of wives and mothers in U.S. working-class survival strategies, 1880–1930
The common image of a female wage earner in the U.S. in the decades around the turn of the 20th century is that of a young, single woman: the daughter of her family. However, the wives and mothers of these families also made important economic contributions to their families' economies. This paper argues that we need to rethink our evaluation of the economic roles played by ever-married women in working-class families. Using a range of government…
Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
Journal Article Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America Get access Miriam Frank. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014. xviii, 221 pp. $54.50.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 310–311, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav206 Published: 01 June 2015
Everybody Works but Father”: Why the Census Misdirected Historians of Women's Employment
Because the US Census Bureau changed the way they reported workers’ marital status, the subfield of US women's labor history unwittingly perpetuated a key misinterpretation of women's labor force participation, allowing historians to believe that women in the workforce between 1880 and 1920 were overwhelmingly young and single women: the daughters of their families rather than the mothers and wives. This change in census reporting was reinforced …
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