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Thistle, Susan.

From marriage to the market the transformation of women's lives and work / [electronic resource] : Susan Thistle. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006. - xiv, 296 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-286) and index.

A world turned inside out -- Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II -- Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance -- The formation of a female underclass -- The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work -- How and why mothers have been shortchanged -- New possibilities and old inequalities.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Nat. Bib. No.: GBA631584 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--Employment--History--United States--20th century.
Women--Economic conditions.--United States
Women--Social conditions.--United States
Work and family--United States.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD6095 / .T49 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 331.40973/09045