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Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. Ava Baron has edited a fine accounting of U.S. social history through the lens of Labor and Capital, with contributions by her, and by Dolores Janiewski, Mary H. Blewett, Eileen Boris, Nancy A. Hewitt, Angel Kwolek-Folland, Heen A. DeVault, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Jacquelyne Dowd Hall, Dana Frank, Elizabeth Faue, Patricia Cooper and Nancy Gabin. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals but for previous owner's signature, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii [4], 2-385 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Summary:In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The fourteen original essays brought together here shed new light on the importance of gender for economic and class analysis and for the study of men as well as women workers. After an introduction by Ava Baron addressing current problems in conceptualizing gender and work, chapters by leading historians consider how gender has colored relations of power and hierarchy--between employers and workers, men and boys, whites and blacks, native-born Americans and immigrants, as well as between men and women--in North America from the 1830s to the 1970s. Individual essays explore a spectrum of topics including union bureaucratization, protective legislation, and consumer organizing. They examine how workers' concerns about gender identity influenced their job choices, the ways in which they thought about and performed their work, and the strategies they adopted toward employers and other workers. Taken together, the essays illuminate the plasticity of gender as men and women contest its meaning and its implications for class relations. Anyone interested in labor history, women's history, and the sociology of work or gender will want to read this pathbreaking book.…