Annotation Making a Life in Yorkville, based on the verbatim, unedited life-course narrative of an urban, working-class, middle-aged man, expands our understanding of the human life course beyond the currently dominant approaches. It presents a comprehensive and rounded life-cou…
The author examines the plight of immigrant women workers and their jobs as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and homecare workers.
The author examines the plight of immigrant women workers and their jobs as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and homecare workers.
"Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nation settled into a conservative period that saw the legal and social subordination of women and non-white men. Politicians, ministers, writers, husbands, fathers, and brothers entreated Anglo-Americ…
