From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work

by Susan Thistle

Book Overview

A social transformation of profound proportions has been unfolding over the second half of the twentieth century as women have turned from household work to wages as the key source of their livelihood. This timely study, a broad comparative analysis of African American women's and white women's changing relationships to home and work over the past forty years, at last provides a wide-ranging overview of how this shift is influencing the shape of families...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520246462
• ISBN13: 9780520246461
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.3"