Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States by Alice Kessler-Harris

Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States

Alice Kessler-Harris

432 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her...

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