Gendering Labor History

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Author: Alice Kessler-Harris

ISBN-10: 0252031490

ISBN-13: 9780252031496

Category: Women & Employment - History

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The role of gender in the history of the working class world.

Introduction: Conflicts in a Gendered Labor History     1Women and the Labor Movement     17"Where Are the Organized Women Workers?"     21Organizing the Unorganizable: Three Jewish Women and Their Union     38Problems of Coalition Building: Women and Trade Unions in the 1920s     52Rose Schneiderman and the Limits of Women's Trade Unionism     71Gender and Class     93Stratifying by Sex: Understanding the History of Working Women     97Independence and Virtue in the Lives of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, 1870-1930     117A New Agenda for American Labor History: A Gendered Analysis and the Question of Class     129Treating the Male as "Other": Redefining the Parameters of Labor History     145Reconfiguring the Private in the Context of the Public     158Labor and Social Policy     175The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women     179The Debate over Equality for Women in the Workplace: Recognizing Differences     191Gendered Interventions: Exploring the Historical Roots of U.S. Social Policy     208The Paradox of Motherhood: Night-Work Restrictions in the United States     222Measures for Masculinity: The American Labor Movement and Welfare-State Policy during the GreatDepression     237New Directions     251In Pursuit of Economic Citizenship     255Reframing the History of Women's Wage Labor: Challenges of a Global Perspective     270"History Is Public or Nothing": Learning How to Keep Illusions in Our Future     286Notes     301Index     357