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Author Amott, Teresa L.

Title Race, gender, and work : a multi-cultural economic history of women in the United States / Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei.

Imprint Boston, MA : South End Press, ©1996.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.409 Am69r 1996    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Edition Rev. ed.
Description xv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-407) and index.
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Race, Class, Gender, and Women's Works: A Conceptual Framework -- Ch. 3. I Am the Fire of Time: American Indian Women -- Ch. 4. The Soul of Tierra Madre: Chicana Women -- Ch. 5. Whatever Your Fight, Don't Be Ladylike: European American Women -- Ch. 6. We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: African American Women -- Ch. 7. Climbing Gold Mountain: Asian American Women -- Ch. 8. Yo Misma Fui Mi Ruta: Puerto Rican Women -- Ch. 9. The Growth of Wage Work -- Ch. 10. The Transformation of Women's Wage Work -- Ch. 11. Seeking Beyond History -- App A: United States Census Sources -- App B: Definitions of Major Occupational Categories -- App C: Labor Force Participation Rates, 1900-1980, and Share of Families Which Were Female-Headed, 1960-1980 -- App D: Some Problems of Comparability Between Census Years.
Subject Women -- United States -- Economic conditions.
Women -- United States -- History.
Women -- Employment -- United States.
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Women -- Economic conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176665
Women -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01176715
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Matthaei, Julie A.
ISBN 0896085384
9780896085381
0896085376 (pbk.)
9780896085374 (pbk.)

 
    
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