Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920

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Author: Lara Vapnek

ISBN-10: 0252034716

ISBN-13: 9780252034718

Category: Women & Employment - History

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Recasting the meaning of women's work in the early fight for gender equality.

Acknowledgments ixList of Abbreviations xiIntroduction 1Chapter 1 The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands 2Chapter 2 Working Girls and White Slaves 34Chapter 3 Gender, Class, and Consumption 66Chapter 4 Solving the Servant Problem 102Chapter 5 Democracy Is Only an Aspiration 129Notes 165Index 209