From marriage to the market : the transformation of women's lives and work /

From marriage to the market : the transformation of women's lives and work / Susan Thistle.

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With its broad historical and theoretical sweep, clear charts and tables, and accessible writing, 'From Marriage to the Market' will be an essential resource for understanding the tumultuous changes currently transforming American society.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Thistle, Susan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Women > Employment > United States > History > 20th century.
Women > United States > Economic conditions.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Work and family > United States.
Women > Economic conditions.
Women > Employment.
Women > Social conditions.
Work and family.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • A world turned inside out
  • Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II
  • Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance
  • The formation of a female underclass
  • The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work
  • How and why mothers have been shortchanged
  • New possibilities and old inequalities.

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