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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 The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer."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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Home and Work
• Author: Jeanne Boydston
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780195085617
• ISBN: 0195085612
• ID: 04513235
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 314 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 140 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. January 1994

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