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The Politics of Women's Work - The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915 (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Women's Work - The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915 (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than
the "problem" of women's work, and few industries posed that
problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris.
The seamstress represented the quintessential "working girl," and
the sewing machine the icon of "modern" femininity. The intense
speculation and worry that swirled around both helped define many
issues of gender and labor that concern us today. Here Judith
Coffin presents a fascinating history of the Parisian garment
industry, from the unraveling of the guilds in the late 1700s to
the first minimum-wage bill in 1915. She explores how issues
related to working women took shape and how gender became
fundamental to the modern social division of labor and our
understanding of it. Combining the social history of women's labor
and the intellectual history of nineteenth-century social science
and political economy, Coffin sets many questions in their fullest
cultural context: What constituted "women's" work? Did women belong
in the industrial labor force? Why was women's work equated with
low pay? Should not a woman enjoy status as an enlightened
homemaker/consumer? The author examines patterns of consumption as
well as production, setting out, for example, the links among the
newly invented sewing machine, changes in the labor force, and the
development of advertising, with its shifting and often unsettling
visual representations of women, labor, and machinery. Throughout,
Coffin challenges the conventional categories of work, home, and
women's identity. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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