Author: Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston, Mass.). Department of Research
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Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Sarah Eisenstein
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136245014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Rooted in the printed sources of the period, this book reconstructs the attitudes of a pioneer generation of young women to the conflicts brought about by their new experience of employment outside their homes, and to changes in work and family relationships. In the 1890s and after the still prevalent Victorian conception of respectable womanhood excluded wage-earning women. Yet working-class women themselves did not acquiesce in this judgement, and Eisenstein’s exploration of Victorian ideas about women and work – using the contemporary middle-class literature of advice and prescription to this new workforce – makes a historical study which is a classic of its kind. The book was originally published in 1983.

Author: Russell Sage Foundation. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Mary Elizabeth Beattie
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773520196
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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In the years between Confederation and the Depression nearly 500,000 Maritimers left their homes to work in the United States or other parts of Canada. Why they left and how their departure affected the region's economy have long been debated but, until now, a major component of that exodus has been largely ignored. In Obligation and Opportunity Betsy Beattie addresses this oversight, examining the lives of the tens of thousands of single Maritime women who left to work in Boston between 1870 and 1930. Carefully crafted from oral interviews, diaries, letters, written recollections, census data, and other historical sources, Obligation and Opportunity opens a window into the world of the women who moved from the Maritimes to New England for work. Urged to stay through tales of danger and woe in the newspapers, they still left by the thousands, and in numbers larger than those for men. Beattie examines the rural families they left, the urban environment they entered in Boston, and the different occupations they filled. She sheds new light on the response of rural families to economic change and the effects of gender on choices for young women. She demonstrates that first-generation emigrants, who left out of a need to find work and send money back home, eased the way for second-generation emigrants, who left to seek opportunities in the big city. Obligation and Opportunity offers new insights not only for everyone interested in the history of the Maritimes and Boston but also for scholars and others interested in family history, women's studies, labour history, and migration studies.

Author: American Sociological Association
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Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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List of members in v. 1, 5-25, 28 (supplemental list in v. 26-27)

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Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 964

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