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Paperback Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940 Book

ISBN: 0807871931

ISBN13: 9780807871935

Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940

Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, Unprotected Labor assesses middle-class women's reform...

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