A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
by Alice Kessler-Harris
The Blazer Lectures (1988)
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In this updated edition of a pathbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty first centuries, focusing on three 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 concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; show more and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new show lessTags
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Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Emerita at Columbia University and a professor at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Her many books include In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America and A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social show more Consequences. show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
- Original publication date
- 2014 (New Edition updated) (New Edition updated); 1990
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, History, Economics, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 331.4 — Society, government, & culture Economics Labor economics Women workers
- LCC
- HD6061.2 .U6 .K47 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class Classes of labor
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
