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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252076619

Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920

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By Lara Vapnek
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Introduction; 1. The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands 1; 2. Working Girls and White Slaves 44; 3. Gender, Class, and Consumption 106; 4. Solving the Servant Problem 179; 5. Democracy is Only an Aspiration 236; List of Abbreviations

''This work is the best history we have of the class tension between elite women reformers and wage-earning women. Vapnek adds a strong, new perspective to interpretive debates over the meaning of dependence, independence, protections, rights, and citizenship.'' Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara

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