The authors draw central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labour, motherhood, paid and unpaid labour, poverty, the feminization of labour and the consequences of globalization.
Women and economic activities in late medieval Ghent
Womanpower: the Arab debate on women at work
by Hijab, Nadia
fromCambridge Middle East library
Womanpower: the Arab debate on women at work
by Hijab, Nadia
fromCambridge Middle East library
Womanpower unveils the lively but little-reported debate on women's positions in the modern Arab world. It paints a picture drawn from individual stories as well as from national development programs and attempts to explain why the process of social change in the region has been…
Aiming to offer fresh insights into the history of labour policy, the New Deal, feminism, and southern politics, the author of this work examines the New Deal era of the National Consumers' League, one of the most influential reform organizations of the early 20th century.
In this book the author traces the story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial rol…
The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century.
What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? [This book] is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for ent…
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"In a pioneering reinterpretation of the role of mainstream feminism, Eisenstein shows how the world's ruling elites utilize women's labor and the ideas of women's liberation and empowerment to maintain their economic and political power, both at home and abroad. Her exploration…
"In a pioneering reinterpretation of the role of mainstream feminism, Eisenstein shows how the world's ruling elites utilize women's labor and the ideas of women's liberation and empowerment to maintain their economic and political power, both at home and abroad. Her exploration…
