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Author |
: Eileen Boris |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190874629 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190874627 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making the Woman Worker by : Eileen Boris
This book explains how the 20th century labor standard regime, forged by the International Labor Organization, cast the woman worker as a special type of worker, but a century later, previously excluded home-based workers placed caring labor at the center of debates over the future of work amid new precarity.
Author |
: Margaret Helen Hobbs |
Publisher |
: St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89073146474 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Woman Worker, 1926-1929 by : Margaret Helen Hobbs
Comprised of articles from the original periodical, Woman worker.
Author |
: Megan K. Stack |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2020-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525431954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525431950 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Work by : Megan K. Stack
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese labor. The housekeeper Stack hired was a migrant from the countryside, a mother who had left her daughter in a precarious situation to earn desperately needed cash in the capital. As Stack's family grew and her husband's job took them to Dehli, a series of Chinese and Indian women cooked, cleaned, and babysat in her home. Stack grew increasingly aware of the brutal realities of their lives: domestic abuse, alcoholism, unplanned pregnancies. Hiring poor women had given her the ability to work while raising her children, but what ethical compromise had she made? Determined to confront the truth, Stack traveled to her employees' homes, met their parents and children, and turned a journalistic eye on the tradeoffs they'd been forced to make as working mothers seeking upward mobility—and on the cost to the children who were left behind. Women's Work is an unforgettable story of four women as well as an electrifying meditation on the evasions of marriage, motherhood, feminism, and privilege.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 92 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000110382219 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women in the Labor Force by :
Author |
: Liza Featherstone |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2009-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786738168 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786738162 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selling Women Short by : Liza Featherstone
On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a 52-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores , a class action representing 1.4 million women. In an explosive investigation of this historic lawsuit, journalist Liza Featherstone reveals how Wal-Mart, a self-styled "family-oriented," Christian company: Deprives women (but not men) of the training they need to advance -- Relegates women to lower-paying jobs, like selling baby clothes, reserving the more lucrative positions for men -- Inflicts punitive demotions on employees who object to discrimination -- Exploits Asian women in its sweatshops in Saipan, a U.S. commonwealth. Featherstone reveals the creative solutions Wal-Mart workers around the country have found-like fighting for unions, living-wage ordinances, and childcare options. Selling Women Short combines the personal stories of these employees with superb investigative journalism to show why women who work low-wage jobs are getting a raw deal, and what they are doing about it.
Author |
: Ruth Milkman |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0252013573 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780252013577 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gender at Work by : Ruth Milkman
"By analyzing the process of work in both the electrical and the automobile industries, the supplies of male and female labor available to each, the varying degrees of labor-intensive work, the proportion of labor costs to total costs, and the extent of male resistance to female entry into the industry before, during, and after the war, Milkman offers a historically grounded and detailed examination of the evolution, function, and reproduction of job segregation by sex." -- Journal of American History "Analytic sophistication is coupled with a powerfully rendered narrative: the reader strides briskly along, enjoying one provocative insight after another while simultaneously absorbed by the drama of the events." -- Women's Review of Books
Author |
: Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0805075097 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780805075090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Woman by : Barbara Ehrenreich
Two social scientists chart the consequences of the global economy on women across the world, revealing the underground economy that has turned many poor women into virtual slaves.
Author |
: Mark LeVine |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 473 |
Release |
: 2012-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520953901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520953908 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel by : Mark LeVine
Too often, the study of Israel/Palestine has focused on elite actors and major events. Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel takes advantage of new sources about everyday life and the texture of changes on the ground to put more than two dozen human faces on the past and present of the region. With contributions from a leading cast of scholars across disciplines, the stories here are drawn from a variety of sources, from stories passed down through generations to family archives, interviews, and published memoirs. As these personal narratives are transformed into social biographies, they explore how the protagonists were embedded in but also empowered by their social and historical contexts. This wide-ranging and accessible volume brings a human dimension to a conflict-ridden history, emphasizing human agency, introducing marginal voices alongside more well-known ones, defying "typical" definitions of Israelis and Palestinians, and, ultimately, redefining how we understand both "struggle" and "survival" in a troubled region.
Author |
: Zoe Thomas |
Publisher |
: Gender in History |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2022-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1526160277 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781526160270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement by : Zoe Thomas
Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and international spheres of influence.
Author |
: LaShawn Harris |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2016-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252098420 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252098420 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners by : LaShawn Harris
During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts, and period literature, Harris teases out answers to essential questions about these women and their working lives. She also offers a surprising revelation, arguing that the burgeoning underground economy served as a catalyst in working-class black women TMs creation of the employment opportunities, occupational identities, and survival strategies that provided them with financial stability and a sense of labor autonomy and mobility. At the same time, urban black women, all striving for economic and social prospects and pleasures, experienced the conspicuous and hidden dangers associated with newfound labor opportunities.