From marriage to the market : the transformation of women's lives and work / Susan Thistle.
2006
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From marriage to the market : the transformation of women's lives and work / Susan Thistle.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
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©2006
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xiv, 296 pages : illustrations
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A world turned inside out
Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II
Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance
The formation of a female underclass
The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work
How and why mothers have been shortchanged
New possibilities and old inequalities.
Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II
Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance
The formation of a female underclass
The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work
How and why mothers have been shortchanged
New possibilities and old inequalities.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-286) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2006. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0520245903 cloth alkaline paper
0520246462 paperback alkaline paper
0520246462 paperback alkaline paper
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