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Breadwinners:

Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920

ISBN-13: 9780252076619
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Lara Vapnek
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Local release date: 13/09/2010
Format: Paperback 232 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Gender studies: women [JFSJ1]

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Google Preview: This study of feminist labor reform examines how working women pursued equality by claiming new identities for themselves as citizens and as breadwinners. Lara Vapnek tells the story of American labor feminism from the end of the Civil War through the winning of woman suffrage rights, a period in which working women in the nation's industrializing cities launched a series of campaigns to gain economic equality and political power.Focusing particularly on disjunctions between middle-class and working-class women's notions of independence, Vapnek highlights the specific contributions of reformers such as Jennie Collins, Leonora O'Reilly, and Helen Campbell and organizations such as the National Consumers' League, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, and the Women's Trade Union League. Locating households as important sites of class conflict, Breadwinners recovers the class and gender politics behind the marginalization of domestic workers in debates over labor reform while documenting the ways in which working-class women raised their voices on their own behalf.; Introduction; 1. The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands 1; 2. Working Girls and White Slaves 44; 3. Gender, Class, and Consumption 106; 4. Solving the Servant Problem 179; 5. Democracy is Only an Aspiration 236; List of Abbreviations; ''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; Google Preview content

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