Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920
Lara Vapnek tells the story of American labor feminism from the end of the Civil War through the winning of woman suffrage. During this period, working women in the nation's industrializing cities launched a series of campaigns to gain economic equality and political power. This book shows how working women pursued equality by claiming new identities as citizens and as breadwinners.\ Analyzing disjunctions between middle-class and working-class women's ideas of independence, Vapnek highlights...
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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
\ From the Publisher"Reads almost like a prequel to When Everything Changed, a history of American women since 1960 by Gail Collins."--The New York Times\ \ "A quite nuanced discussion of the impact of gender on the forging of class identities from the Gilded Age into the Progressive Era. . . . Highly Recommended"--Choice\ \ "Illuminates the strong connections between labor rights and political rights and enhances our understanding of the promises and the perils of cross-class organizing."--Journal of American History\ \ \
