Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States

by Eileen Boris

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In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the world of work. Bringing the factory or office into the home challenges this division. From the 1870s, when New York cigarmakers attempted to end tenement competition, to New Deal prohibitions in the 1930s, gender ideologies shaped the battle over homework. But by the 1980s, the middle-class mother at the keyboard replaced the victimized immigrant as the symbol of homework. Home to Work...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521455480

ISBN13:9780521455480

Release Date:May 1994

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:404 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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Americas Business & Investing Economics History Labor & Industrial Relations Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Popular Economics Social Science Social Sciences Women in History

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