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- catalog abstract "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 The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer."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.".
- catalog alternative "Home & work".
- catalog contributor b2939151.
- catalog coverage "United States Economic conditions To 1865.".
- catalog created "1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1990.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-215) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- An "Oeconomical Society" -- "A New Source of Profit and Support" -- "How Strangely Metamorphosed" -- "All the In-doors Work" -- "The True Economy of Housekeeping" -- The Political Economy of Housework -- The Pastoralization of Housework -- Notes -- Bibliography - Index.".
- catalog description "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 The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer."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.".
- catalog extent "xx, 222 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Home and work.".
- catalog identifier "0195060091 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0195085612 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Home and work.".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Home and work.".
- catalog spatial "United States Economic conditions To 1865.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "331.4/8164046/0973 20".
- catalog subject "HD6073.H842 U625 1990".
- catalog subject "Home economics United States History.".
- catalog subject "Housewives United States History.".
- catalog subject "Wages Housewives United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- An "Oeconomical Society" -- "A New Source of Profit and Support" -- "How Strangely Metamorphosed" -- "All the In-doors Work" -- "The True Economy of Housekeeping" -- The Political Economy of Housework -- The Pastoralization of Housework -- Notes -- Bibliography - Index.".
- catalog title "Home & work".
- catalog title "Home and work : housework, wages, and the ideology of labor in the early republic / Jeanne Boydston.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".