| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 383 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction 'home, sweet home': gender, the state, and labor standards -- Part I. Man's Freedom, Woman's Necessity: Jacobs and its Legacy -- 1. 'A man's dwelling house is his castle': tenement house cigarmaking and the judicial imperative -- 2. 'White slaves of the cities': campaigns against sweated cothing -- 3. 'Women who work' and 'Women who spend': the family economy vs. the family wage -- Part II. Visions and Voices: 4. 'Soldiers of freedom', 'garments of slavery': patriotic homework -- 5. 'To study their own conditions': states' rights to regulate -- 6. 'Homework is a community question' the worlds of the homeworker -- Part III. Engendering the New Deal: 7. 'To improve on business through law': homework under the NRA -- 8. 'Strike while the iron is hot': the politics of enactment, the perils of enforcement -- 9. 'Unknown to the common law': the fair labor standards act -- Part IV. Homework Redux: 10. 'With a keyboard in one hand': white collars in the home -- 11. Deregulating 'the rights of women' -- Index |
| Analysis |
Mothers Employment |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Home labor -- United States -- History
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Working mothers -- United States -- History
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Home labor
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Working mothers
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
93011104 |
| ISBN |
0521443709 |
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9780521443708 |
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0521455480 |
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9780521455480 |
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