In this pathbreaking book, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth century, focusing on three sets of issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument over equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the current debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together these issues trace the many ways in which gendered meaning has been produced, transmitted, and challenged.
- ISBN10 0813170931
- ISBN13 9780813170930
- Publish Date December 2001 (first published 10 August 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University Press of Kentucky
- Format eBook
- Pages 305
- Language English