Bitter Choices: Blue-Collar Women in and Out of Work

by Ellen Israel Rosen

Book Overview

Ellen Israel Rosen presents a compelling portrait of married women who work on New England's assembly lines while they also maintain their homes and marriages. With skill and sympathy, she documents the reasons these women work; their experiences on the job, in the union, and at home; the sources of their job satisfaction; and their management of the "double day." The major issue for this segment of the labor force, Rosen suggests, is not whether...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226726452
• ISBN13: 9780226726458
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"