Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900-1950

by Miriam Cohen

Book Overview

In turn-of-the-century New York, Italian immigrant daughters spent their youth in factories while their mothers did irregular wage labor as well as domestic work at home. By the I940s, Italian-American girls were in school, socializing and preparing for white-collar jobs that would not begin until they were eighteen. Drawing on a range of sources from censuses to high school yearbooks, Miriam Cohen examines shifting patterns in the family roles,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801480051
• ISBN13: 9780801480058
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher