Work Engendered : : Toward a New History of American Labor /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 3 halftones, 6 line drawings
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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

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