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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 The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer."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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780195060096 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0195060091 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 0.75 x 8.75 In |
| List Price | $35.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 248 pages |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Published On | 1990-11-15 |
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