Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920

by Lara Vapnek

Book Overview

Lara Vapnek tells the story of American labor feminism from the end of the Civil War through the winning of woman suffrage. During this period, working women in the nation's industrializing cities launched a series of campaigns to gain economic equality and political power. This book shows how working women pursued equality by claiming new identities as citizens and as breadwinners.

Analyzing disjunctions between middle-class and working-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076613
• ISBN13: 9780252076619
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"