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"To toil the livelong day" : America's women at work, 1780-1980

Author: Carol Groneman; Mary Beth Norton
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1987.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Carol Groneman; Mary Beth Norton
ISBN: 080141847X 9780801418471 0801494524 9780801494529
OCLC Number: 15084222
Notes: Papers presented at the Sixth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women held at Smith College June 1-3, 1984.
Description: xi, 312 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton -- Housewife and gadder : themes of self-sufficiency and community in eighteenth-century New England / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- The sexual division of labor and the artisan tradition in early industrial capitalism : the case of New England shoemaking, 1780-1860 / Mary H. Blewett -- Beyond conventional wisdom : women's wage work, household economic contribution, and labor activism in a mid-nineteenth-century working-class community / Carole Turbin -- Sapphire? : the issue of dominance in the slave family, 1830-1865 / Christie Farnham -- "She helped me hay it as good as a man" : relations among women and men in an agricultural community / Nancy Grey Osterud. Gender relations and working-class leisure : New York City, 1880-1920 / Kathy Peiss -- From "Sealskin and shoddy" to "The pig-headed girl" : patriarchal fables for workers / Ann Schofield -- Trouble in the nursery : physicians, families, and wet nurses at the end of the nineteenth century / Janet Golden -- Feeling the pinch : the Kalamazoo Corsetmakers' Strike of 1912 / Karen M. Mason -- Seeking "a new day and a new way" : black women and unions in the Southern tobacco industry / Dolores Janiewski -- Housewife and household worker : employer-employee relationships in the home, 1928-1941 / Phyllis Palmer -- "This work had a end" : African-American domestic workers in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940 / Elizabeth Clark-Lewis. "He isn't half so cranky as he used to be" : agricultural mechanization, comparable worth, and the changing farm family / Corlann Gee Bush -- Wins and losses : the UAW Women's Bureau after World War II, 1945-1950 / Nancy Gabin -- Amber waves of gain : women's work in New York farm families / Sarah Elbert -- By the day or week : Mexicana domestic workers in El Paso / Vicki L. Ruiz -- Working women's consciousness : traditional or oppositional? / Cynthia Costello.
Responsibility: edited by Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton.

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