Work Engendered by Ava Baron
In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The...The author repeatedly reminds us in her astute readings of More, Bacon, and Cavendish that it is more important to relish what a narrative provides than to lament the history that is not yet written
-- Amy Boesky, Boston College * Modern Philology *Work Engendered, required reading for all labor historians and fascinating for everyone else, encourages a reconceptualization of the history of workers and work.
* The Women's Review of Books *Ava Baron is Professor of Sociology at Rider College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801495434 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801495431 |
| Title | Work Engendered |
| Author | Ava Baron |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 1991-08-13 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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