Working Women in America: Split Dreams

6 x 9-1/2 x 1/2 " 0195110250 2000 Softcover book...BRAND NEW from 2000 publisher...Never opened, Never owned, Never marked...Gift Giving quality...234 pages, illustrated with [more]

6 x 9-1/2 x 1/2 " 0195110250 2000 Softcover book...BRAND NEW from 2000 publisher...Never opened, Never owned, Never marked...Gift Giving quality...234 pages, illustrated with charts & graphs & few B&W photos, including 2 of authors inside back cover...Sharon Hesse Biber, author and former director of the Women's Studies program at Boston College and codeveloper of HyperRESEARCH software to analyze qualitative data...Gregg Lee Carter, Professor of Sociology at Bryant College, has seen his research in gender, race and contemporary social problems appear in more than a dozen academic jurnals as well as in numerous books that he has authored or edited. In this book, they examine the diversity of women's work experiences from pre-industrial times to the 20th centuries...Women have worked throughout history, and this book demonstrates that women in the work force is not a recent phenomenon...Shows the constant tension and multiple role affiliations that women experience; the 'split dreams', with women constantly juggling their work and family dreams...Recognizing that the present is to a large extent a legacy of the past, they provide a thorough historical overview of women at work, carefully examining the diversity of women's experiences by race, ethnicity, class, and age. The aconomic legal political, familial and educational institutions are then analyzed to show the ways in which they help to produce and maintain inequality for women in the workplace. This book intersperses first-hand acounts throughtout the book and provides a number of vignettes of women emplyed in a variety of occupations, including clerical and blue collar work, throughout the Colonial pre-industrialization age, Great Depression, World War Two, and modern period up to the present. " Working Women in America-Split Dreams "...by Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Gregg Lee Carter, published by Oxford University Press, New York 2000...*** Securely packed for Safe delivery ~ Shipping safely Worldwide, since 1965 ***[less]