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Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
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This article explored the history of work, workers, and working class culture in America from the founding of the first colonies to the beginning of the twentieth century, focusing on how working men and women constantly strived to make sense of the profound socioeconomic and technological changes taking place in this period.Abstract:
This course will explore the history of work, workers, and working class culture in America from the founding of the first colonies to the beginning of the twentieth century. We will focus on how working men and women constantly strived to make sense of the profound socioeconomic and technological changes taking place in this period. We will discuss a wide variety of issues including: workers' organizations and unions, radicalism and working class political culture, the effects of immigration and urbanization on American workers, and the significance of race and gender on workers' solidarity.read more
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Paradoxes of gender
TL;DR: Lorber as discussed by the authors argues that gender is a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences.
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From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor
TL;DR: In this paper, a study on African American, Latina, Asian American, and Native American women reveals the complex interaction of race and gender oppression in their lives, revealing the inadequacy of additive models that treat gender and race as separate and discrete systems of hierarchy (Collins 1986; King 1988; Brown 1989).
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The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship
TL;DR: The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in NineteenthCentury America, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1975): 1-29 as discussed by the authors.
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Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies
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TL;DR: The authors explored how the separation of powers shapes employer response to law and found that an administrative ruling requiring employers with disability leave programs to permit maternity leave, which employers successfully fought in the courts, was at least as effective as the identical congressional statute that replaced it.
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Companion to Historiography
TL;DR: The Project of Historiography as discussed by the authors ) is a project dedicated to the preservation and preservation of the history of the East and the West of the Middle Ages and the early modern world.
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Paradoxes of gender
TL;DR: Lorber as discussed by the authors argues that gender is a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences.
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From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor
TL;DR: In this paper, a study on African American, Latina, Asian American, and Native American women reveals the complex interaction of race and gender oppression in their lives, revealing the inadequacy of additive models that treat gender and race as separate and discrete systems of hierarchy (Collins 1986; King 1988; Brown 1989).
Journal ArticleDOI
The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship
TL;DR: The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in NineteenthCentury America, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1975): 1-29 as discussed by the authors.
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Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies
Erin L. Kelly,Frank Dobbin +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored how the separation of powers shapes employer response to law and found that an administrative ruling requiring employers with disability leave programs to permit maternity leave, which employers successfully fought in the courts, was at least as effective as the identical congressional statute that replaced it.
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Companion to Historiography
TL;DR: The Project of Historiography as discussed by the authors ) is a project dedicated to the preservation and preservation of the history of the East and the West of the Middle Ages and the early modern world.