Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic by Jeanne Boydston

Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic

Jeanne Boydston

248 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Over the course of a two hundred year period, women's domestic labor gradually lost its footing as a recognized aspect of economic life in America. The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been...

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