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Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920
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Description for Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920
Paperback. Explores the origin and array of protective labor legislation directed at women. This title analyzes ideologies, attitudes, and effects of legislation across women's classes, among employers and workers' organizations, and in both bourgeois and socialist feminist groups. Editor(s): Wikander, Ulla; Kessler-Harris, Alice; Lewis, Jane. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFJ; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 600.
Enacted in almost every industrial country a century ago, protective legislation directed toward women provoked bitter controversy, pitting men against women, women against women, and elected officials against political parties. Strong conflicts arose over what constituted 'protection.' Does this kind of legislation help preserve women's capacities to mother, or is it intended to preserve men's jobs? Does protective legislation help achieve workplace equality? Does it give the state the right to intrude into private family life and, if so, how far? In this international collection, thirteen historians explore the origin and array of protective labor legislation directed at women. The ... Read more
Enacted in almost every industrial country a century ago, protective legislation directed toward women provoked bitter controversy, pitting men against women, women against women, and elected officials against political parties. Strong conflicts arose over what constituted 'protection.' Does this kind of legislation help preserve women's capacities to mother, or is it intended to preserve men's jobs? Does protective legislation help achieve workplace equality? Does it give the state the right to intrude into private family life and, if so, how far? In this international collection, thirteen historians explore the origin and array of protective labor legislation directed at women. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252064647
SKU
V9780252064647
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About Wikander
Ulla Wikander is an associate professor of economic history at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Alice Kessler-Harris is a professor of history and the director of women¹s studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. N.J. Jane Lewis is a professor of social policy at the London School of Economics.
Reviews for Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920
"Superb... Illuminates the ways that motherhood as cultural role, public discourse, political strategy, and lived experience intersected with welfare state development, labor market expansion, and definitions of citizenship."
Eileen Boris, authorof Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States
Eileen Boris, authorof Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States