In this third week of Women's History Month, we are looking at social history books that will help you better understand her life.
Title: Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
Author: Alice Kessler-Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Synopsis: "This pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the US from colonial days to the present and identified the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society at the time, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. ..."
Why You Need This Book: Women have always worked. Some women worked for wages. Learning more about historical women's work can be beneficial to your research. Chapters in this work look at colonial life, the Civil War era, World War I to the present (my copy was published in 1982 but there is a newer edition published in 2003). Endnotes can lead you to other works that will be helpful in considering women's history. Harris has other books about women's work and teaches courses via edX that you might be interested in.
1 comment:
I ordered this and it just arrived. I don't have a lot of women who worked outside the home, but it will still be interesting to read.
Post a Comment