Gendering Labor History
Alice Kessler-Harris(Author)
University of Illinois Press
Published on 1. February 2007
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-0-252-03149-6 (ISBN)
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This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual trajectory of one of today's leading historians of gender and labor in the United States. The seventeen essays included in Alice Kessler-Harris's Gendering Labor History are divided into 4 sections, narrating the evolution and refinement of her central project: to show gender's fundamental importance to the shaping of U.S. history and working-class culture. The first section considers women and organized labor; the second pushes this analysis towards a gendered labor history as the essays consider the gendering of male as well as female workers and how gender operates with and within the social category of class. Subsequent sections broaden this framework to examine U.S. social policy as a whole, the question of economic citizenship, and wage labor from a global perspective. While each essay represents an important intervention in American historiography in itself, the collection taken as a whole reveals Kessler-Harris as someone who has always pushed the field of American history to greater levels of inclusion and analysis, and who continues to do so today.
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"Over her 30-year career as a labor historian, Alice Kessler-Harris has established herself as one of the foremost authorities on the history of women and work in the United States... Kessler-Harris provides an excellent starting point for those interested in understanding the contribution of women to the American labor movement and workforce."--Labor Studies JournalMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Adult education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
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978-0-252-03149-6 (9780252031496)
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Gendering Labor History
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Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University. Her books include Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences, and most recently In Pursuit of Equity: How Gender Shaped American Economic Citizenship, which won the Joan Kelly, Phillip Taft, and Bancroft Prizes.