Circles of Care

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Women and Work
• Explores the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly. This work examines the expe... Lees meer

Memories of Migration

Kathie Friedman-Kasaba

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Women and Work
• Offers a comparative historical study of women's migration from Russia and Italy to New York at the turn of the 20th century. Taking an interdisciplin... Lees meer

If Eight Hours Seem Too Few

Elda Gentili Zappi

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Women and Work
• This book is the first to present a vivid and accurate picture of the thousands of women who worked weeding the rice fields in northern Italy during t... Lees meer

Work Without Wages

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Women and Work
• This book expands recent research on the economic significance of household-based production for family consumption and for the wider market. While th... Lees meer

Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women, 1905-1925

Susan Lehrer

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Women and Work
• In this comprehensive, wide-ranging analysis, Susan Lehrer investigates the origins of protective labor legislation for women, exposing the social for... Lees meer

Hidden in the Home

Jamie Faricellia Dangler

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Women and Work
• This book combines a case study of industrial homework in the electronics industry with a world-systems approach to understanding the role of home-bas... Lees meer

Education and Women's Work

John L Rury

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Women and Work
• This book examines the transformations in women's work and education and assesses their effects on women from different social and cultural background... Lees meer

Ingredients for Women's Employment Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Women and Work
• Ingredients for Women's Employment Policy gathers together the ideas of sociologists and economists, including both quantitative and qualitative resea... Lees meer

The Worth of Women's Work

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Women and Work
• Many common assumptions about work are challenged in this book. For example, the findings refute the common assertion that work tasks can be categoriz... Lees meer

The State and Women in the Economy

Jean Larson Pyle

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Women and Work
• This book examines the effect of state policies on women's roles in the economy. At the most concrete level it investigates the relative lack of respo... Lees meer