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The History of Women in the United States, Vol 5, part 2 - The Intersection of Work and Family Life (Hardcover)
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The History of Women in the United States, Vol 5, part 2 - The Intersection of Work and Family Life (Hardcover)
Series: The history of women in the United States, Vol 5, part 2
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Today, with the majority of adult women in the paid labour force,
the issue of women's combination of work and family life-work and
motherhood, in particular - is much in the news, as though it were
an unprecedented phenomenon. Historians of women have shown,
however, that women's combination of productive economic activity
and childbearing has been more the norm than the exception in past
time; only a small stratum of prosperous women, for a relatively
short period of years in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
were ever able to devote themselves wholly to child care and
housekeeping. What is unprecedented, in our own time, is the extent
to which women's work is performed outside of the household rather
than in or around it, and for a wage or salary rather than for
barter or "in-kind" services. The articles in the volume detail how
women of various ethnic and racial groups have managed the
necessary combination of economic and familial tasks, in both rural
and urban settings. The coverage, from Native American and slave
women in the early nineteenth century, through pioneers and
immigrants, to modern college graduates in the mid-twentieth
century, gives a compelling overview of the persistent weightiness
and consequence of women's economic roles.
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