Making Choices, Making Do : : Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression / / Lois Rita Helmbold.
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Helmbold, Lois Rita, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Making Choices, Making Do : Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression / Lois Rita Helmbold. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022] ©2023 1 online resource (242 p.) : 33 b&w images, 8 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: My History and Positionality -- List of Abbreviations Used in Text and Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Urban Working-Class Daily Lives and Work in the 1920s -- 2 Job Deterioration and Unemployment: “You Just Can’t Depend on a Steady Job at All” -- 3 Employment Strategies and Their Consequences -- 4 The Family Economy: Daily Survival and Management of Resources -- 5 Interrupted Expectations: Loyalty and Conflict in the Family Economy -- 6 Outside the Family Economy: “Most Times I’d Go to a Friend” -- 7 Relief: “I Never Thought I Would Come to This. I Am So Willing and Anxious to Work” -- Conclusion: Working-Class Women’s Class and Race Consciousness -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Interview Sources -- Appendix B: Social Scientists at the Women’s Bureau -- Appendix C: The U.S. Census -- Appendix D: Tables -- Citation Conventions / Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Making Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and white working-class women’s survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based on analysis of employment histories and Depression-era interviews of 1,340 women in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and South Bend and letters from domestic workers, Lois Helmbold discovered that Black women lost work more rapidly and in greater proportions. The benefits that white women accrued because of structural racism meant they avoided the utter destitution that more commonly swallowed their Black peers. When let go from a job, a white woman was more successful in securing a less desirable job, while Black women, especially older Black women, were pushed out of the labor force entirely. Helmbold found that working-class women practiced the same strategies, but institutionalized racism in employment, housing, and relief assured that Black women worked harder, but fared worse. Making Choices, Making Do strives to fill the gap in the labor history of women, both Black and white. The book will challenge the limits of segregated histories and encourage more comparative analyses. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) HISTORY / General. bisacsh the Great Depression, feminism in the 1930s, comparative studies, feminism, workplace feminism, working women in the US, American working women, structural racism, segregation, segregated histories, civil rights era, unemployment in the 30s, 1930s America, racial tension, American structural racism, workplace inequity, race consciousness, Depression-era women, Great Depression case studies, workers in America, worker history in America, job listings, unemployment benefits, unemployment welfare, working women. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 English 9783110992960 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 9783110992939 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110791303 https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978826472?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978826472 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978826472/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: My History and Positionality -- List of Abbreviations Used in Text and Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Urban Working-Class Daily Lives and Work in the 1920s -- 2 Job Deterioration and Unemployment: “You Just Can’t Depend on a Steady Job at All” -- 3 Employment Strategies and Their Consequences -- 4 The Family Economy: Daily Survival and Management of Resources -- 5 Interrupted Expectations: Loyalty and Conflict in the Family Economy -- 6 Outside the Family Economy: “Most Times I’d Go to a Friend” -- 7 Relief: “I Never Thought I Would Come to This. I Am So Willing and Anxious to Work” -- Conclusion: Working-Class Women’s Class and Race Consciousness -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Interview Sources -- Appendix B: Social Scientists at the Women’s Bureau -- Appendix C: The U.S. Census -- Appendix D: Tables -- Citation Conventions / Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: My History and Positionality -- List of Abbreviations Used in Text and Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Urban Working-Class Daily Lives and Work in the 1920s -- 2 Job Deterioration and Unemployment: “You Just Can’t Depend on a Steady Job at All” -- 3 Employment Strategies and Their Consequences -- 4 The Family Economy: Daily Survival and Management of Resources -- 5 Interrupted Expectations: Loyalty and Conflict in the Family Economy -- 6 Outside the Family Economy: “Most Times I’d Go to a Friend” -- 7 Relief: “I Never Thought I Would Come to This. I Am So Willing and Anxious to Work” -- Conclusion: Working-Class Women’s Class and Race Consciousness -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Interview Sources -- Appendix B: Social Scientists at the Women’s Bureau -- Appendix C: The U.S. Census -- Appendix D: Tables -- Citation Conventions / Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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