The politics of women's work : the Paris garment trades, 1750-1915 / Judith G. Coffin.
The politics of women's work : the Paris garment trades, 1750-1915 / Judith G. Coffin.
The politics of women's work : the Paris garment trades, 1750-1915 / Judith G. Coffin.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.
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N331.4887094/1
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English
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xiii, 289 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Women's Work? Men and Women, Guild and Clandestine Production in Eighteenth-Century Paris -- Ch. 2. Machinery, Political Economy, and Women's Work, 1830-1870 -- Ch. 3. Selling the Sewing Machine: Credit, Advertising, and Republican Modernity, 1870-1900 -- Ch. 4. The Revival of Homework: Many...
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c1996.
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In this fascinating combination of the social history of women's labor and the intellectual history of nineteenth-century social science and political economy, Coffin sets many such questions in their fullest cultural context. She examines the century-long historical processes that made gender fundamental to the modern social division of labor and...
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The politics of women's work : the Paris garment trades, 1750-1915 / Judith G. Coffin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-274) and index.
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c1996.
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N331.4887094/1
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0691034478 (alk. paper)
9780691034478 (alk. paper)
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331.48870944361
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991004220399702626
