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"Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids. Getting Me Cheap is a portrait of the lives of the low-wage workers--primarily women--who make this lifestyle possible. Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the food, health care, home care, and other low-wage industries as they struggle to balance mothering with bad jobs and without...
15) Good girl work: factories, sweatshops, and how women changed their role in the American workforce
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[1999]
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Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions and the nature of the work itself.
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2016.
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An acclaimed gem of hidden history, Gunpowder Girls is a story of child labor, immigrant hopes, and the endless demands of a cruel war.
With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the government hired women and girls — some as young as ten — to make millions of rounds of ammunition. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were
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