Charitable women, committees, and the poor : home work in the tenements of New York City, 1911-1915 /

Charitable women, committees, and the poor : home work in the tenements of New York City, 1911-1915 / by Erica L. Martinson.

This thesis documents two specific moral assumptions of reformers and middle class audiences regarding home work. The first is the rejection of home working mothers, and the second is the moral appeal to consumers that their indulgence in fashion and mass-produced goods had created an industrial...

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Main Author: Martinson, Erica L.
Corporate Authors: Simmons College (Boston, Mass.) History Dept., Simmons College (Boston, Mass.) Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: 2011.
Subjects:
Simmons University (Boston, Mass.) > Dissertations.
Labor > United States > History.
Contract labor > United States > History.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Women > Employment > United States.
Child labor > United States > History.

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Call Number: HD6053 .M46 2011

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