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

Annotation 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 labour in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States.

• | Author: Jeanne Boydston
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: January 20, 1994
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0195085612
• | ISBN-13: 9780195085617