Out to Work
A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
20th Edition
Published on 16. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-19-515709-3 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1982, this pioneering work 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 work 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.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for the Previous Edition: Impressive and deftly written....An example or two cannot do justice to the variety of materials and ideas the author draws together to explain how women workers have functioned as a low-paid reserve force, and why, as wage work became the rule rather than the exception in the 20th century, they found themselves in marginal jobs stereotyped as feminine. * The New York Times Book Review * Comprehensive and packed with information. * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Without a doubt the single best survey of transformation of women's paid and unpaid work from the colonial period to the present. * American Historical Review *More details
Edition
20th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
37 b/w halftones
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
541 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-515709-3 (9780195157093)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
02/2003
20th Edition
OUP eBook
€11.99
Available for download
Person
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, where she also teaches in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is the author of A Woman's Wage, Women Have Always Worked and In Pursuit of Equity.