Industrial Wage Work

ISBN-13: 9783598416934 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 332 str.

Nancy F. Cott

Opis

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.

Spis treści

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part 2. -- THE 1907 BELL TELEPHONE STRIKE: Organizing Women Workers -- Women, Wobblies, and Workers' Rights: The 1912 Textile Strike in Little Falls, New York -- WHY WOMEN WORK: A COMPARISON OF VARIOUS GROUPS-PHILADELPHIA, 1910-1930 -- Rethinking the Sexual Division of Labor: Pullman Repair Shops, 1900-1969 -- Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South -- WOMEN IN THE WORK FORCE Atlanta, New Orleans, and San Antonio, 1930 to 1940 -- Women's Work and Economic Crisis: Some Lessons of the Great Depression -- REDEFINING "WOMEN'S WORK": THE SEXUAL DIVISION OF LABOR IN THE AUTO INDUSTRY DURING WORLD WAR II -- "THEY HAVE PLACED A PENALTY ON WOMANHOOD": THE PROTEST ACTIONS OF WOMEN AUTO WORKERS IN DETROIT-AREA UAW LOCALS, 1945-1947 -- WOMEN WORKERS AND THE UAW IN THE POST-WORLD WAR II PERIOD: 1945-1954 -- PROTECTION OF WOMEN WORKERS AND THE COURTS: A LEGAL CASE HISTORY -- Copyright Information -- Index