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Product Description: 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; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories...read more

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9780813145136 | Updated edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, April 21, 2014), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories.
9780813108032 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, July 25, 1991), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In this pathbreaking book, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth century, focusing on three sets of 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 over equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the current debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories.

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Product Description: Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the...read more

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9781596913639 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, April 24, 2012, cover price $30.00

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9781608193950 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, August 6, 2013), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway.

Product Description: First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of women's work into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do...read more

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9780195157109 | Anv edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 30, 2013), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of women's work into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do.

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Product Description: This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual trajectory of one of today's leading historians of gender and labor in the United States. The seventeen essays included in Alice Kessler-Harris’s Gendering Labor History are divided into 4 sections, narrating the evolution and refinement of her central project: to show gender’s fundamental importance to the shaping of U...read more

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9780252031496 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, December 20, 2006), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual trajectory of one of today's leading historians of gender and labor in the United States.

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9780252073939 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, December 20, 2006), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual trajectory of one of today's leading historians of gender and labor in the United States.

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9780892552900 | 3 edition (Persea Books, August 1, 2003), cover price $11.95

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Product Description: First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780195157093 | 20 anv edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 13, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do.
9780195033533 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1983), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A history of American women and their work since colonial times focuses on society's changing expectations of women

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Product Description: Few historians have contributed more to our understanding of the history of women, and women's effect on history, than Alice Kessler-Harris. Author of the classic Out to Work, she is one of the country's leading scholars of gender, the economy, and public policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780195038354 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 23, 2001, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Few historians have contributed more to our understanding of the history of women, and women's effect on history, than Alice Kessler-Harris.

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A young Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side rebels against the tyranny and chauvinism of her immigrant father, determined to assert her freedom and independence (view table of contents)
By Alice Kessler-Harris (introduced by) and Anzia Yezierska

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9780892550142 | Persea Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A young Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side rebels against the tyranny and chauvinism of her immigrant father, determined to assert her freedom and independence

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Product Description: Book by Kessler-Harris, Alice

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9780872290938 | Revised edition (Amer Historical Assn, June 1, 1997), cover price $5.00 | About this edition: Book by Kessler-Harris, Alice
9780872290587 | Amer Historical Assn, September 1, 1991, cover price $5.00

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Product Description: Enacted in almost every industrial country a century ago, protective legislation directed toward women provoked bitter controversy, pitting men against women, women against women, and elected officials against political parties. Strong conflicts arose over what constituted 'protection...read more

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9780252064647 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Enacted in almost every industrial country a century ago, protective legislation directed toward women provoked bitter controversy, pitting men against women, women against women, and elected officials against political parties.

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Product Description: This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history, this book, according to its editors, 'intrudes into regions of the American historical narrative from which women have been excluded or in which gender relations were not thought to play a part...read more

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9780807821855 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history.

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Product Description: Book by Moody, J. Carroll

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9780875801506 | Northern Illinois Univ Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Book by Moody, J.

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Product Description: Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Alice Kessler-Harris (editor) and William McBrien (editor)

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9780313259562 | Praeger Pub Text, February 1, 1988, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the twentieth century.

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Product Description: This pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the U.S. from colonial days to the present and identifies the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do...read more

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9780195030242 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 22, 1982, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the U.

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