Laboring Women: 5 Classic Books on Female Industrial Participation
Five Classic Investigations of Women's Work, Industry, Reform, and Economic JusticeBy Sidney Lewis Gulick, B. L. Hutchins, Cornelia Stratton Parker
Length40h 42m
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Laboring Women gathers five classic studies of women's industrial participation, tracing the pressures and possibilities created by wage labor, factory discipline, occupational segregation, and changing domestic expectations. Moving between social investigation, economic argument, reformist critique, and morally engaged observation, the volume illuminates both the statistics of employment and the lived realities behind them. Its selections register the unequal terms on which women entered modern industry while preserving the complexity of their ambitions, skills, vulnerabilities, and collective agency. The contributing writers bring together reform-minded scholarship and public-facing social analysis associated with the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century inquiry into labor conditions. Sidney Lewis Gulick, B. L. Hutchins, and Cornelia Stratton Parker represent distinct intellectual and cultural approaches to questions of work, gender, and social responsibility. Read collectively, their texts participate in wider debates surrounding industrialization, protective labor legislation, women's education, economic independence, and the emergent social-scientific study of working life. Their varied perspectives make visible the tensions within reform discourse itself. This collection is recommended for readers of labor history, women's studies, social reform, and industrial modernity. It offers an unusually concentrated opportunity to compare methods, assumptions, and rhetorical styles across foundational writings on women's work. Students and general readers alike will find in these pages a rich educational record and a continuing dialogue about dignity, inequality, and participation in economic life.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length40 hrs 42 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Working Women of Japan
2PREFACE
3CHAPTER IV
4CHAPTER XI
5CHAPTER XIII
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6Women in Modern Industry
7PREFACE.
8CHAPTER II.
9CHAPTER III.
10CHAPTER IV.
11CHAPTER IVa.
12CHAPTER V.
13CHAPTER VI.
14APPENDIX TO CHAPTERS II. AND IV.
15APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VII.
16Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York
17CHAPTER I FOR POLLY PRESTON’S SAKE
18CHAPTER II MY FIRST STEPS IN THE UNDERBRUSH
19CHAPTER III SLIMY THINGS THAT WALK ON LEGS
20CHAPTER IV AGAINST A RUSH OF THE HERD
21CHAPTER V HUMAN COOTIES
22CHAPTER VI GOOD HUNTING-GROUND
23CHAPTER VII FEMALES OF THE SPECIES
24CHAPTER VIII ST. ROSE’S HOME FOR GIRLS
25CHAPTER IX RODMAN HALL: CHILDREN’S HOME
26CHAPTER X TRUSTED WITH BILLIONS, PAID IN MILLS
27CHAPTER XI I AM SICK IN THE UNDERBRUSH
28CHAPTER XII JACKALS FIGHT TO KEEP FROM FIGHTING
29CHAPTER XIII “MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE”
30CHAPTER XIV STAMPING-GROUND OF THE MONKEY-PEOPLE
31CHAPTER XV THE HEART OF THE JUNGLE
32CHAPTER XVI BURROWING IN
33CHAPTER XVII THE SCOURGE
34CHAPTER XVIII JIST DOGS!
35CHAPTER XIX FAITH OF JUNGLE-MOTHERS
36CHAPTER XX A PEST-HOUSE?
37CHAPTER XXI FORCING THE GOOSE TO LAY MORE DOLLARS
38CHAPTER XXII WOLVES AS SOCIAL LEADERS
39CHAPTER XXIII LEADERS OF THE HERD
40CHAPTER XXIV THE GALL OF THE YOKE
41CHAPTER XXV THE END OF THE TRAIL
42Working With the Working Woman
43Working With the Working Woman
44INTRODUCTION
45WORKING WITH THE WORKING WOMAN
46195 Irons “Family” (pt. 1)
47195 Irons “Family” (pt. 2)
48CONCLUSION
49Women in the Printing Trades: A Sociological Study
50Women in the Printing Trades: A Sociological Study
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