The Intersection of Work and Family Life

ISBN-13: 9783598414596 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 370 str.

Nancy F. Cott; Nancy F. Cott

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The articles in this volume detail how women of various ethnic and racial groups have managed the necessary combination of economic and familial tasks, in both rural and urban settings. They provide an overview of the continued importance and consequence of women's economic roles.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Intersection of Work and Family Life -- ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION AND THE POSITION OF WOMEN AMONG THE IROQUOIS -- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY -- the lady and the mill girl: changes in the status of women in the age of jackson -- REFLECTIONS ON THE BLACK WOMAN'S ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY OF SLAVES -- "MY MOTHER WAS MUCH OF A WOMAN": BLACK WOMEN, WORK, AND THE FAMILY UNDER SLAVERY -- FREE BLACK WOMEN AND THE QUESTION OF MATRIARCHY: PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, 1784-1820 -- TWO WORLDS IN ONE: WORK AND FAMILY -- THE LIFE CYCLES AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN ETHNIC GROUPS Irish, Germans, and Native-born Whites in Buffalo, New York, 1855 -- Fertility and Marriage in a Nineteenth- Century Industrial City: Philadelphia, 1850-1880 -- Reconceptualizing Family, Work and Labor Organizing: Working Women in Troy, 1860-1890 -- WORKING-CLASS WOMEN IN THE GILDED AGE. FACTORY, COMMUNITY AND FAMILY LIFE AMONG COHOES, NEW YORK, COTTON WORKERS -- Homesteading in Northeastern Colorado, 1873-1920: Sex Roles and Women's Experience -- The Chicana in American History: The Mexican Women of El Paso, 1880-1920-A Case Study -- WORK AND THE FAMILY IN BLACK ATLANTA, 1880 -- FAMILY TIME AND INDUSTRIAL TI?? Family and Work in a Planned Corporation Town, 1900-1924 -- IMPERFECT UNIONS CLASS AND GENDER IN CRIPPLE CREEK, 1894-1904 -- A FLEXIBLE TRADITION: SOUTH ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS CONFRONT A NEW WORK EXPERIENCE -- NEW IMMIGRANT WOMEN AT WORK: ITALIANS AND JEWS IN NEW YORK CITY, 1880-1905 -- BEYOND THE STEREOTYPE: A NEW LOOK AT THE IMMIGRANT WOMAN, 1880-1924 -- Urbanization without Breakdown