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Home to work: motherhood and the politics of industrial homework in the United States

Boris, Eileen, 1948-

Year: 1994.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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List of illustrations and tables

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Introduction. "Home, sweat home": Gender, the state, and labor standards

PART I. MAN'S FREEDOM, WOMAN'S NECESSITY: JACOBS AND ITS LEGACY

1 "A man's dwelling house is his castle": Tenement house cigarmaking and the judicial imperative

2 "White slaves of the cities": Campaigns against sweated clothing

3 "Women who work" and "women who spend": The family economy vs. the family wage

PART II. VISIONS AND VOICES

4 "Soldiers of freedom," "garments...of slavery": Patriotic homework

5 "To study their own conditions": States' rights to regulate

6 "Homework is a community question": The worlds of the homeworker

PART III. (EN)GENDERING THE NEW DEAL

7 "To improve on business through law": Homework under the National Recovery Administration

8 "Strike... while the iron is hot": The politics of enactment, the perils of enforcement

9 "Unknown to the common law": The Fair Labor Standards Act

PART IV. HOME/WORK REDUX

10 "With a keyboard in one hand": White collars in the home

11 Deregulating "the rights of women"

Index of cases

Index

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Title:

Home to work : motherhood and the politics of industrial homework in the United States Eileen Boris.

Author:

Boris, Eileen, 1948-

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Home to work : motherhood and the politics of industrial homework in the United States Eileen Boris.
Boris, Eileen, 1948-
Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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• Home labor -- United States -- History
• Working mothers -- United States -- History

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