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- catalog abstract ""In Steam Laundries, Arwen Mohun traces the industry's development from the first commercial laundries in the 1840s to their decline in the 1950s. That trajectory, she argues, took shape within the constraints of what was technologically possible and culturally acceptable. Rising standards of cleanliness, new kinds of machinery, and an increasingly polluted urban environment provided the context for the industry's emergence. The shortcomings of applying factory methods to washing clothes, increased regulation, and the rising costs of labor all encouraged consumers eventually to abandon laundries for newly available alternatives - electric washing machines and irons. By comparing this process in Britain and the United States, Mohun reveals differences created by culture, regulation, and social structure. She also shows the unexpected transatlantic character of this seemingly localized kind of business."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11135655.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""In Steam Laundries, Arwen Mohun traces the industry's development from the first commercial laundries in the 1840s to their decline in the 1950s. That trajectory, she argues, took shape within the constraints of what was technologically possible and culturally acceptable. Rising standards of cleanliness, new kinds of machinery, and an increasingly polluted urban environment provided the context for the industry's emergence. The shortcomings of applying factory methods to washing clothes, increased regulation, and the rising costs of labor all encouraged consumers eventually to abandon laundries for newly available alternatives - electric washing machines and irons. By comparing this process in Britain and the United States, Mohun reveals differences created by culture, regulation, and social structure. She also shows the unexpected transatlantic character of this seemingly localized kind of business."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-340) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Origins and growth of an industry, 1880-1920. 1. Technical and cultural origins. 2. The business of laundry. 3. Inside the laundry. 4. women workers and the laundry industry. 5. Unionization and regulation, 1888-1914 -- pt. II. Confronting maturity, 1920-1940. 6. Production and consumption during the interwar period. 7. Laundries in black and white. 8. Bringing in the state. 9. Compliance and enforcement at the other end of the stick. 10. Women and men and unions. 11. Facing the domestic threat -- Conclusion / Remembering the laundry industry.".
- catalog extent "x, 348 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Steam laundries.".
- catalog identifier "0801860024 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Steam laundries.".
- catalog isPartOf "Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Steam laundries.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "338.7/6166713/0973 21".
- catalog subject "HD9999.L383 U634 1999".
- catalog subject "Laundry industry Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Laundry industry United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Origins and growth of an industry, 1880-1920. 1. Technical and cultural origins. 2. The business of laundry. 3. Inside the laundry. 4. women workers and the laundry industry. 5. Unionization and regulation, 1888-1914 -- pt. II. Confronting maturity, 1920-1940. 6. Production and consumption during the interwar period. 7. Laundries in black and white. 8. Bringing in the state. 9. Compliance and enforcement at the other end of the stick. 10. Women and men and unions. 11. Facing the domestic threat -- Conclusion / Remembering the laundry industry.".
- catalog title "Steam laundries : gender, technology, and work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 / Arwen P. Mohun.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".