A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences

by Alice Kessler-Harris

Book Overview

In this pathbreaking book, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth century, focusing on three sets of issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument over equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813108039
• ISBN13: 9780813108032
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher