America's working women : a documentary history, 1600 to the present / edited by Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon with Susan Reverby.

Contributor Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad, 1939-

Edition Statement:Rev. and updated.

Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton, c1995.

Descriptionxxvii, 356 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:Before 1820. Paid and unpaid labor ; Servitude -- 1820-1865. Slaves and free blacks ; The contested land ; Factory life ; Controversy about women's work -- 1865-1890. Industry ; Coping with new conditions -- 1890-1920. Migrants and immigrants ; Rural labor ; Industrial labor ; The tradition of struggle -- 1920-1940. Nonindustrial work ; The Depression ; Working women organize ; Black women against racism ; Using the state -- 1940-1955. The war ; Feminine mystique and feminine reality -- 1955-Present. Continuing patterns ; Deindustrialization ; The movements ; New initiatives.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-350) and index.

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