1st Edition
Give Us Bread but Give Us Roses Working Women's Consciousness in the United States, 1890 to the First World War
By Sarah Eisenstein
Copyright 1983
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Rooted in the printed sources of the period, this book reconstructs the attitudes of a pioneer generation of young women to the conflicts brought about by their new experience of employment outside their homes, and to changes in work and family relationships. In the 1890s and after the still prevalent Victorian conception of respectable womanhood excluded wage-earning women. Yet working-class... Read more
Part 1: Introductory Essays 1. Introduction Harold Benenson 2. Bread and Roses: Working Women’s Consciousness, 1905-20 Part 2: Essays in the Study of Working Women’s Consciousness 3. The Study of Working Women’s Consciousness 4. Victorian Ideology and Working Women 5. Working Women’s Attitudes Toward Marriage and Work. Appendix. Afterword Nancy Cott
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Sarah Eisenstein
