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Woman's Wage
Professor Of History Alice (Hofstra University) Kessler-Harris
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Series: Blazer Lectures. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSJ1; JPQB; KJW; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together, these topics illuminate the many ways in which gendered ... Read more
In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together, these topics illuminate the many ways in which gendered ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Condition
New
Series
Blazer Lectures
Number of Pages
196
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813145136
SKU
V9780813145136
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Ref
99-23
About Professor Of History Alice (Hofstra University) Kessler-Harris
Alice Kessler-Harris is R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History and professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University, USA. She is the author of numerous books, including In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America; Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United ... Read more
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