Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920
Author:   Lara Vapnek
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
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9780252076619


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   28 October 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Lara Vapnek
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780252076619


ISBN 10:   0252076613
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   28 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments   ix List of Abbreviations   xi Introduction   1 Chapter 1. The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands   11 Chapter 2. Working Girls and White Slaves   34 Chapter 3. Gender, Class, and Consumption   66 Chapter 4. Solving the Servant Problem   102 Chapter 5. Democracy Is Only an Aspiration   129 Notes   165 Index   209 Illustrations follow page 10

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"""This work is the best history we have of the class tension between elite women reformers and wage-earning women. Vapnek adds a strong, new perspective to interpretive debates over the meaning of dependence, independence, protections, rights, and citizenship."" Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara"


This work is the best history we have of the class tension between elite women reformers and wage-earning women. Vapnek adds a strong, new perspective to interpretive debates over the meaning of dependence, independence, protections, rights, and citizenship. Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara


""This work is the best history we have of the class tension between elite women reformers and wage-earning women. Vapnek adds a strong, new perspective to interpretive debates over the meaning of dependence, independence, protections, rights, and citizenship."" Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara


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Lara Vapnek is a professor of history at St. John's University. She is the author of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary.

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