Home and Work (Paperback)

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 The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer."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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1994
First published:	1994
Authors:	Boydston
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-508561-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > Employment & unemployment Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-508561-2
Barcode:	9780195085617

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