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Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940
Vanessa H. May
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Description for Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940
Paperback. Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940 Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; JFSC; JFSJ1; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 381.
Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, Unprotected Labor assesses middle-class women's reform programs as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions. May argues that working-class women sought to define the middle-class home as a workplace even as employers and reformers regarded ... Read more
Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, Unprotected Labor assesses middle-class women's reform programs as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions. May argues that working-class women sought to define the middle-class home as a workplace even as employers and reformers regarded ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807871935
SKU
V9780807871935
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About Vanessa H. May
Vanessa H. May is assistant professor of history at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.
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