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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: May, Vanessa H. Unprotected labor. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2010047551 (OCoLC)668197747 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Vanessa H May |
ISBN: | 9780807877906 0807877905 9781469603094 1469603098 |
OCLC Number: | 742361681 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 THE TYRANT OF THE HOUSEHOLD: The Debate over the "Servant Question" and the Privacy of the Middle-Class Home, 1870-1915; 2 STICKING TOGETHER THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND BAD: Immigrant Domestic Workers, Ethnic Communities, and Resistance; 3 ENCOURAGING THE GOOD, WEEDING OUT THE BAD, AND TEACHING THE IGNORANT: Women's Organizations and Domestic Workers in New York City, 1870-1915; 4 THE "ENLIGHTENED MAJORITY" VERSUS THE "DIE-HARD FRINGE": The State and Reform of Domestic Service, 1915-1940. 5 EVERY DOMESTIC WORKER A UNION WORKER: Middle-Class African American Organizations and Domestic Workers Confront Labor Exploitation during the DepressionEPILOGUE: The Walls of Jericho; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
Responsibility: | Vanessa H. May. |
Abstract:
Examines how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labour protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, this assesses middle-class women's reform programs as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions.
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