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Gendering Labor History

  • ISBN-13: 9780252073939
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Alice Kessler-Harris
  • Price: AUD $60.99
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2007
  • Format: Paperback 352 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual trajectory of one of today's leading historians of gender and labor in the United States. The seventeen essays included in Alice Kessler-Harris's Gendering Labor History are divided into four sections, narrating the evolution and refinement of her central project: to show gender's fundamental importance to the shaping of U.S. history and working-class culture. The first section considers women and organized labor; the second pushes this analysis toward a gendered labor history as the essays consider the gendering of male as well as female workers and how gender operates with and within the social category of class. Subsequent sections broaden this framework to examine U.S. social policy as a whole, the question of economic citizenship, and wage labor from a global perspective. While each essay represents an important intervention in American historiography in itself, the collection taken as a whole reveals Kessler-Harris as someone who has always pushed the field of American history to greater levels of inclusion and analysis, and who continues to do so today.
''This collection s a real gem. It is a tribute both to Alice Kessler-Harris 's brilliance and to the strides made by gendered history.'' Ileen A. DeVault, professor of labor history, Cornell University ''Alice Kessler-Harris is one of the most influential historians of our time, and these essays remind us of why this is the case. Rather than arguing for the study of women 's labor history, she argues for the decisive importance of gender in the history of working people. But what makes Gendering Labor History more than just a collection of fine and often well-known essays is the constant expansion of her thinking - from the early writings on garment workers and their unions to the global perspective of the final essays. This book stands as creative work in its own right.'' David Montgomery, author of The Fall of the House of Labor: The Work-place, the State, and American Activism
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