Steam laundries : gender, technology, and work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 / A...
Steam laundries : gender, technology, and work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 / A...
Steam laundries : gender, technology, and work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 / Arwen P. Mohun.
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Publisher
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N338.76166713/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. Origins and Growth of an Industry, 1880-1920. 1. Technical and Cultural Origins. 2. The Business of Laundry. 3. Inside the Laundry. 4. Women Workers and the Laundry Industry. 5. Unionization and Regulation, 1888-1914 -- Pt. II. Confronting Maturity, 1920-1940. 6. Production and Consumption du...
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Publisher
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
"In Steam Laundries, Arwen Mohun traces the industry's development from the first commercial laundries in the 1840s to their decline in the 1950s. That trajectory, she argues, took shape within the constraints of what was technologically possible and culturally acceptable. Rising standards of cleanliness, new kinds of machinery, and an increasingly...
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Steam laundries : gender, technology, and work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 / Arwen P. Mohun.
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-340) and index.
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N338.76166713/1
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74Vvrk35Ko23
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ISBN
0801860024 :
9780801860027 (alk. paper)
0801860024 (alk. paper)
9780801860027 :
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338.761667130973
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991011410659702626
