A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences

By Alice Kessler-Harris

Book Overview

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 t

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813145139
• ISBN13: 9780813145136
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher