Making Choices, Making Do

Making Choices, Making Do

Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression

Helmbold, Lois Rita

Rutgers University Press

10/2022

282

Dura

Inglês

9781978826441

15 a 20 dias

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Preface: My History and Positionality
Abbreviation in Text and Notes
Citation Conventions
Introduction
1. Urban Working-Class Daily Lives and Work in the 1920s
2. Job Deterioration and Unemployment: "You just can't depend on a steady job at all."
3. Employment Strategies and their Consequences
4. The Family Economy: Daily Survival and Management of Resources
5. Interrupted Expectations: Loyalty and Conflict in the Family Economy
6. Outside the Family Economy: "Most times I'd go to a friend."
7. Relief: "I never thought I would come to this. I am so willing and anxious to work."
Conclusion: Working-Class Women's Class and Race Consciousness
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1: Interview Sources
Appendix 2: Women's Bureau Social Scientists
Appendix 3: The Census
Tables
End notes
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the Great Depression; feminism in the 1930s; comparative studies; feminism; workplace feminism; working women in the US; American working women; structural racism; segregation; segregated histories; civil rights era; unemployment in the 30s; 1930s America; racial tension; American structural racism; workplace inequity; race consciousness; Depression-era women; Great Depression case studies; workers in America; worker history in America; job listings; unemployment benefits; unemployment welfare; working women