Making Choices, Making Do : : Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression / / Lois Rita Helmbold.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Helmbold, Lois Rita,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.) :; 33 b&w images, 8 tables

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 domes...

Table of Contents

• 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