Home and work
housework, wages, and the ideology of labor in the early republic
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Publication
1990 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
55,500 words, Guess
Page Count
222 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1871773M
- ISBN-100195060091
- OCLC Control Number45844523
- OCLC Control Number21030268
- Library of Congress Control Number90031349
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- LibraryThing517697
Classifications
- DDC331.4/8164046/0973
- LCCHD6073.H842 U625 1990
Description
Over the course of a two hundred year period, women's domestic labor gradually lost its footing as a recognized aspect of economic life in America. The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer." This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labor in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States. Boydston argues that just as a capitalist economic order had first to teach that wages were the measure of a man's worth, it had at the same time, implicitly or explicitly, to teach that those who did not draw wages were dependent and not essential to the "real economy." Developing a striking account of the gender and labor systems that characterized industrializing America, Boydston explains how this effected the devaluation of women's unpaid labor.
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