Susan Porter Benson

Biographic Data

ID343607
NAMESusan Porter Benson
GIVEN NAMESSusan Porter
FAMILY NAMEBenson
SIGNATUREBENSON S P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Missouri
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS61
WORKS AS AUTHOR31
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX4

  • What Goes 'Round Comes 'Round

    Susan Porter BensonARTICLEJournal of women's history2007

    What Goes 'Round Comes 'Round:Secondhand Clothing, Furniture, and Tools in Working-Class Lives in the Interwar United States Susan Porter Benson (bio) Working-class family economies in the interwar United States depended heavily on secondhand goods as one of many expedients to stretch insufficient resources.1 Used items could offer an indirect entry to consumer culture, stretch a tight budget to supply comforts not otherwise available, provide bo…

  • Commentary

    Susan Porter BensonARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2005Cited by: 1

    Research Article| December 01 2005 Commentary: The Riveting of a Women's Labor Movement Susan Porter Benson Susan Porter Benson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (4): 44–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-4-44 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Porter Benson; Commentary: The Riveting of a Women's Labor Movement. Labor 1 December 2005; 2 (4): 44–48. doi: https:…

  • Asen Praso in History and Memory

    Susan Benson, Susan Porter Benson et al.ARTICLEGhana Studies2004Cited by: 8References: 2

    In 1994, UNESCO launched its Slave Route Programme. The aim was to encourage awareness of the implications of the transatlantic slave trade. There have been conferences, publications, exhibitions, plans for the conservation of sites associated with the “Slave Route”[1][1] and for the development

  • Cutting into the Meatpacking Line

    Susan Porter Benson, Deborah FinkARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest. By Deborah Fink. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 235 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2388-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4695-3.) Get access Susan Porter Benson Susan Porter Benson University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…

  • The Common Ground of Womanhood

    Susan Porter Benson, Priscilla MuroloARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1999

  • Film Review

    Susan Porter BensonARTICLEThe Oral History Review1997

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsSusan Porter BensonSusan Porter Benson directs the Women's Studies Program and teaches history at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (University of Illinois Press, 1986), and is at work on a book to be entitled Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States

  • The Department Store

    Susan Porter Benson, Bill LancasterARTICLEJournal of American History1997Cited by: 2

    Journal Article The Department Store: A Social History. By Bill Lancaster. (London: Leicester University Press, 1995. viii, 212 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-7185-1734-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-71851985-X.) Get access Susan Porter Benson Susan Porter Benson University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 674–67…

  • Buy Now, Pay Later

    Susan Porter Benson, Martha L OlneyARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1994

  • The Gender of Breadwinners

    Susan Porter Benson, Joy ParrARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1800–1950. By Joy Parr. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xiv + 314pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8020-5853-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8020-6760-3.) Get access Susan Porter Benson Susan Porter Benson University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4,…

  • Building the History of Working-Class America

    Betsy Blackmar, Bruce Levine et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1993

    SOME SIXTY YEARS AGO, Charles Beard and Mary Beard speculated in The Rise of American Civilization that "when the full story of self-government in America is written, reviewing the commonplace no less than the spectacular, pages on the cellular growth of local craft unions will be placed besides the records of town meetings; while chapters on the formation of national labor structures will complement the sections on the origin and development of …

  • Mr. Sears' Catalogue

    Susan Porter Benson, Mark ObenhausARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Mr Sears' Catalogue. Prod. by Mark Obenhaus. Obenhaus Films, 1989. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Get access Susan Porter Benson Susan Porter Benson University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1108–1109, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079151 Published: 01 December 1990

  • Social History in the Museum

    Susan Porter BensonARTICLERadical History Review1990

    Research Article| October 01 1990 Social History in the Museum Susan Porter Benson Susan Porter Benson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (48): 118–133. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-48-118 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Porter Benson; Social History in the Museum. Radical History Review 1 October 1990; 1990 (48): 118–133. doi: https…

  • The Grounding of Modern Feminism

    Susan Porter BensonREVIEWThe American Historical Review1989

    Examines changes in the women's movement in the twenty years following women's suffrage, and describes the complex issues of that period

  • Women, Households, and the Economy

    Susan Porter Benson, Lourdes Beneria et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1989Cited by: 7

    Journal Article Women, Households, and the Economy. Ed. by Lourdes Benería and Catharine R. Stimpson. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. xxv + 339 pp. Cloth, $32.00; paper, $12.00.) Get access Susan Porter Benson Susan Porter Benson University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1377–1378, https://doi.org/10.2…

  • Triangles of Conflict and Accommodation

    John H M Laslett, Susan Porter Benson et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1988

    John H. M. Laslett, Triangles of Conflict and Accommodation: Men, Women, and Employers in Cigarmaking and Department Store Service in the Early Twentieth Century, Reviews in American History, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jun., 1988), pp. 267-271

  • Counter Cultures

    Judith A Bootcheck, Susan Porter BensonARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1988

  • Employing Bureaucracy

    Susan Porter BensonREVIEWJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900–1945. By Sanford M. Jacoby. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xi + 377 pp. Cloth, $37.50; paper, $14.50.) Get access Susan Porter Benson Susan Porter Benson University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988…

  • Counter Cultures

    Veronica Strong-Boag, Veronica Strong‐boag et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1988

  • The 1920s Through the Looking Glass of Gender

    Open AccessSusan Porter BensonARTICLEInternational Labor and…1987Cited by: 1References: 6

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  • Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars

    Susan Porter BensonARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…1987

  • Presenting the past

    Roy Rosenzweig, Stephen Brier et al.BOOKPresenting the past1986

  • Counter cultures

    Susan Porter BensonBOOKCounter cultures1986Cited by: 33

  • Anti-"Commodifiers" in Public History

    Open AccessEdith Mayo, Susan Porter Benson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1986Cited by: 1

  • The Women's Movement and Women's Culture

    Susan Porter Benson, Lois Scharf et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1984

  • Ambiguous Ethnicity

    Anne Wilson, Susan Benson et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1983