Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807871931
ISBN13:9780807871935
Release Date:June 2011
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:262 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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