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Historians and the Working-class Woman in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Maurine Weiner Greenwald
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

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Type
Essays
Copyright
Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1979

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References

NOTES

1. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977)

2. Benson, Susan Porter, “‘The Clerking Sisterhood’: Rationalization and the Work Culture of Saleswomen in American Department Stores, 1890–1960,” Radical America 12 (0304 1978), 4155;Google Scholar ‘‘The Customers Ain't God,’” (Paper delivered at the Social Science History Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1978).

3. Callahan, Helen C., “Upstairs-Downstairs in Chicago 1870–1907: The Glessner Household,” Chicago History 6 (Winter 19771978), 195209.Google Scholar See also Katzman, David, Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America (New York, 1978)Google Scholar for an extended discussion of mistress-servant relations with white and black domestics.

4. Kleinberg, Susan J., “Technology and Women's Work: The Lives of Working Class Women in Pittsburgh, 1870–1900,” Labor History 17 (Winter 1976), 5872.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5. Hareven, Tamara, “Family Time and Industrial Time: Family and Work in a Planned Corporation Town, 1900–1924,” Journal of Urban History 1 (05 1975), 365389.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6. The phrase “bonds of sex and barriers of class” is borrowed from Caroline Ware's introductory essay to the Cantor-Laurie anthology.