Out to Work
A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3947129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Milkman (0000-0001-8859-4541) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Issue | 13 |
| Pages | 89 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Out To Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States: 20Th Anniversary Edition, Alice Kessler-Harris, 2003 |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1394685 |
| OpenAlex | W1489942010 |
| Language | EN |
First published in 1982, this pioneering 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 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
Economics · Ethnic group · Ideology · Labour economics · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Wage · Women's history · Work (physics) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
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The Work of Womanhood in American Naturalism
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Feminist Theories
Representative/Democracy
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Contradictory Impulses
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |