Work Engendered : : Toward a New History of American Labor / / ed. by Ava Baron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Baron, Ava,; Blewett, Mary H.,; Boris, Eileen,; Cabin, Nancy,; Cobble, Dorothy Sue,; Cooper, Patricia,; DeVault, Ileen A.,; Fame, Elizabeth,; Frank, Dana,; Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd,; Hewitt, Nancy A.,; Janiewski, Dolores,; Kwolek-Folland, Angel,
• HerausgeberIn: Baron, Ava,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 3 halftones, 6 line drawings

In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The fourteen original essays brought together here shed new light on the importance of gender for economic and class analysis and for the study of men as well as women workers. After an introduction by Ava Baron addressing current problems in conceptualizing gender and work, chapters by leading historians consider how gender has colored relations of power and hierarchy—between employers and workers, men and boys, whites and blacks, native-born Americans and immigrants, as well as between men and women—in North America from the 1830s to the 1970s. Individual essays explore a spectrum of topics including union bureaucratization, protective legislation, and consumer organizing. They examine how workers' concerns about gender identity influenced their job choices, the ways in which they thought about and performed their work, and the strategies they adopted toward employers and other workers. Taken together, the essays illuminate the plasticity of gender as men and women contest its meaning and its implications for class relations. Anyone interested in labor history, women's history, and the sociology of work or gender will want to read this pathbreaking book.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Gender and Labor History: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future -- CHAPTER TWO. An "Other" Side of Gender Antagonism at Work: Men, Boys, and the Remasculinization of Printers' Work, 1830—192.0 -- CHAPTER THREE. Southern Honor, Southern Dishonor: Managerial Ideology and the Construction of Gender, Race, and Class Relations in Southern Industry -- CHAPTER FOUR. Manhood and the Market: The Politics of Gender and Class among the Textile Workers of Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1880 -- CHAPTER FIVE. "A Man's Dwelling House Is His Castle": Tenement House Cigarmaking and the Judicial Imperative -- CHAPTER SIX. "The Voice of Virile Labor'5: Labor Militancy, Community Solidarity, and Gender Identity among Tampa's Latin Workers, 1880-192,1 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Gender, Self, and Work in the Life Insurance Industry, 1880—1930 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. "Give the Boys a Trade55: Gender and Job Choice in the 18905 -- CHAPTER NINE. "Drawing the Line55: The Construction of a Gendered Work Force in the Food Service Industry -- CHAPTER TEN. Private Eyes, Public Women: Images of Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913—1915 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Gender, Consumer Organizing, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919—1929 -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Paths of Unionization: Community, Bureaucracy, and Gender in the Minneapolis Labor Movement of the 19305 -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Faces of Gender: Sex Segregation and Work Relations at Philco, 1928-1938 -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Time out of Mind: The UAW's Response to Female Labor Laws and Mandatory Overtime in the 19605 -- Contributors -- Index