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Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930
by Tentler, Leslie Woodcock
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0195026276
- ISBN 13
- 9780195026276
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. [14], 266 p.; 21 cm. Grey cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author argues that, rather than gaining a sense of independence and self-worth from factory work, American women who left the home for industrial work from 1900 to 1930 learned "more persuasive lessons about the inevitability of a circumscribed female role." -- dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine- Condition: page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008292
- Title
- Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930
- Author
- Tentler, Leslie Woodcock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0195026276
- ISBN 13
- 9780195026276
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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