SUNY series on Women and Work

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Memories of Migration

Offers a comparative historical study of women’s migration from Russia and Italy to New York at the turn of the 20th century. Taking an interdisciplinary and global perspective, the book examines the causes and consequences of women’s migration, contrasting the adaptation experiences of Jewish and Italian women.

Hidden in the Home

This book combines a case study of industrial homework in the electronics industry with a world-systems approach to understanding the role of home-based work in economic development. It spans the period ...

Education and Women's Work

This book examines the transformations in women's work and education and assesses their effects on women from different social and cultural backgrounds.

If Eight Hours Seem Too Few

This book is the first to present a vivid and accurate picture of the thousands of women who worked weeding the rice fields in northern Italy during the early part of the nineteenth century. It explores ...

The State and Women in the Economy

This book examines the effect of state policies on women's roles in the economy. At the most concrete level it investigates the relative lack of response of women's labor force activity rates to export-led ...

Circles of Care

Explores the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly.

Work Without Wages

production for family consumption and for the wider market. While the importance of women's domestic labor has been generally recognized, the complex articulation between household activities and the ...

The Worth of Women's Work

Many common assumptions about work are challenged in this book. For example, the findings refute the common assertion that work tasks can be categorized into '"instrumental," or task activities, versus ...

Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women, 1905-1925

In this comprehensive, wide-ranging analysis, Susan Lehrer investigates the origins of protective labor legislation for women, exposing the social forces that contributed to its passage and the often ...

Ingredients for Women's Employment Policy

Ingredients for Women's Employment Policy gathers together the ideas of sociologists and economists, including both quantitative and qualitative research. Basic descriptive data gathered over the last ...