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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/742361681 Title: Unprotected labor : household workers, politics, and middle-class reform in New York, 1870-1940 Author: Vanessa H May Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011. ISBN/ISSN: 9780807877906 0807877905 9781469603094 1469603098 OCLC:742361681

  
  

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Unprotected labor : household workers, politics, and middle-class reform in New York, 1870-1940

Author:	Vanessa H May
Publisher:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, this book explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labour protections that formed the foundation of the US welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, it assesses middle-class women's reform programmes as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions.  Read more...
Subjects	Women household employees -- New York (State) -- History. Women household employees -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- History. Women -- New York (State) -- Social conditions -- History. View all subjects
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