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From marriage to the market the transformation of women's lives and work /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thistle, Susan
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Subjects:	Women > Employment > United States > History > 20th century. Women > United States > Economic conditions. Women > United States > Social conditions. Work and family > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:

A world turned inside out
Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II
Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance
The formation of a female underclass
The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work
How and why mothers have been shortchanged
New possibilities and old inequalities.