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From marriage to the market [electronic resource] : the transformation of women's lives and work / Susan Thistle.

By: Thistle, Susan.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006Description: xiv, 296 p. : ill.Subject(s): Women -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Women -- United States -- Economic conditions | Women -- United States -- Social conditions | Work and family -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.40973/09045 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-286) and index.

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.

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