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Product Identifiers

PublisherHolt & Company, Henry

ISBN-100805067744

ISBN-139780805067743

eBay Product ID (ePID)1812405

Product Key Features

Book TitleNever Done : a History of American Housework

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicSocial History, General, Women's Studies

FeaturesRevised

IllustratorYes

GenreHouse & Home, Social Science, History

AuthorSusan Strasser

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-037023

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Lively and provocative . . . A wonderful book. For bringing housework into the light of historical scholarship, Strasser deserves to have her name become a household word."-Jacqueline Jones, author of American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor "A work of genius . . . marvelous to read."-Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Remarkable, rich and acute . . . Retrieves the taken-for-granted minutiae of the everyday life of ordinary people."-The New Yorker "Rich in detail . . . I have not stopped thinking about this book since I finished reading it."-Nina King, Newsday, "Lively and provocative . . . A wonderful book. For bringing housework into the light of historical scholarship, Strasser deserves to have her name become a household word."-Jacqueline Jones, author of American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor "A work of genius . . . marvelous to read."-Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Remarkable, rich and acute . . . Retrieves the taken-for-granted minutiae of the everyday life of ordinary people."- The New Yorker "Rich in detail . . . I have not stopped thinking about this book since I finished reading it."-Nina King, Newsday, "Lively and provocative . . . A wonderful book. For bringing housework into the light of historical scholarship, Strasser deserves to have her name become a household word."Jacqueline Jones, author of American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor "A work of genius . . . marvelous to read."Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Remarkable, rich and acute . . . Retrieves the taken-for-granted minutiae of the everyday life of ordinary people." The New Yorker "Rich in detail . . . I have not stopped thinking about this book since I finished reading it."Nina King, Newsday

Dewey Decimal640/.973

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisFinally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the "women's separate sphere," and the respective influences of advertising, home economics, and women's entry into the workforce. Never Done begins by describing the household chores of nineteenth-century America: cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with boilers and flatirons, endless water-hauling and fire-tending, and so on. Strasser goes on to explain and explore how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Easing some tasks and eliminating others, new commercial processes inexorably altered women's daily lives and relationships-with each other and with those they served., Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the women's separate sphere, and the respective influences of advertising, home economics, and women's entry into the workforce. Never Done begins by describing the household chores of nineteenth-century America: cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with boilers and flatirons, endless water-hauling and fire-tending, and so on. Strasser goes on to explain and explore how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Easing some tasks and eliminating others, new commercial processes inexorably altered women's daily lives and relationships--with each other and with those they served.

LC Classification NumberTX23.S77 2000