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

Thistle, Susan.

From marriage to the market : the transformation of women's lives and work / Susan Thistle. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006. - xiv, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-286) and index.

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.

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