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Home to work: motherhood and the politics of industrial homework in the United States
Eileen Boris
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Frontmatter
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List of illustrations and tables (page viii)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Abbreviations (page xiv)
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Introduction. "Home, sweat home": Gender, the state, and labor standards (page 1)
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PART I. MAN'S FREEDOM, WOMAN'S NECESSITY: JACOBS AND ITS LEGACY
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1 "A man's dwelling house is his castle": Tenement house cigarmaking and the judicial imperative (page 21)
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2 "White slaves of the cities": Campaigns against sweated clothing (page 49)
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3 "Women who work" and "women who spend": The family economy vs. the family wage (page 81)
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PART II. VISIONS AND VOICES
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4 "Soldiers of freedom," "garments...of slavery": Patriotic homework (page 125)
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5 "To study their own conditions": States' rights to regulate (page 151)
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6 "Homework is a community question": The worlds of the homeworker (page 171)
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PART III. (EN)GENDERING THE NEW DEAL
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7 "To improve on business through law": Homework under the National Recovery Administration (page 201)
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8 "Strike... while the iron is hot": The politics of enactment, the perils of enforcement (page 245)
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9 "Unknown to the common law": The Fair Labor Standards Act (page 273)
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PART IV. HOME/WORK REDUX
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10 "With a keyboard in one hand": White collars in the home (page 305)
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11 Deregulating "the rights of women" (page 337)
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Index of cases (page 367)
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Index (page 369)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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CS | 25.6 (Nov.1996): 802-804 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199611%2925%3A6%3C802%3AHTWMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2 |
CS | 25.5 (Sep. 1996): 617-619 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199609%2925%3A5%3C617%3AHTWMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B |
HEQ | 36.1 (Spring 1996): 62-64 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2680%28199621%2936%3A1%3C62%3AHTWMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0 |
AHR | 100.4 (Oct.1995): 1315 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199510%29100%3A4%3C1315%3AHTWMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V |
JAH | 82.1 (Jun.1995): 277-278 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199506%2982%3A1%3C277%3AHTWMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2 |
RAH | 22.4 (Dec. 1994): 629-631 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28199412%2922%3A4%3C626%3AMWMEDO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P |
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Published: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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