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Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic

Boydston, Jeanne

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Over the course of a two hundred year period, women's domestic labor gradually lost its footing as a recognized aspect of economic life in America. The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer." This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labor in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States. Boydston argues that just as a capitalist economic order had first to teach that wages were the measure of a man's worth, it had at the same time, implicitly or explicitly, to teach that those who did not draw wages were dependent and not essential to the "real economy." Developing a striking account of the gender and labor systems that characterized industrializing America, Boydston explains how this effected the devaluation of women's unpaid labor.

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OXFORD UNIV PR

Bisac Major Subject

History

Bisac Minor Subject

United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

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Paperback

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8.21 Inches

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5.5 Inches

Publication Date

1970-01-01

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0.76 Inches

ISBN 10

0195085612

Weight

0.7 Pounds

Book EAN

9780195085617

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Adults

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Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic