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Earning power : women and work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallis, Eileen V.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, [2010]
Series:Urban West.
Subjects:
Women > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Women employees > California > Los Angeles > History.
Women > Employment > California > Los Angeles > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Women in white-collar work
  • Servants and retail workers in Los Angeles
  • Working women and the limits of welfare capitalism
  • Race, class, and gender in Los Angeles's unions
  • Suffrage and politics in Los Angeles
  • Immigrant women, work, and Americanization
  • Wartime, protest, and new industries.