Explores the changing role of women in American society in the early years of the twentieth century

The scope is confined to women's paid work, excluding contributions made on the home front. A 16-page introduction chronicling the history of women and work in

In this collection of informative essays, Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye bring together work by such notable scholars as Ellen Carol DuBois, Alice Kessler-Har

This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migr

America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and work