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Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the "problem" of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris. The seamstress represented the quintessential "working girl," and the sewing machine the icon of "modern" femininity. The intense speculation and worry that



Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1Women's Work? Men and Women, Guild and Clandestine Production in Eighteenth-Century Paris19Ch. 2Machinery, Political Economy, and Women's Work, 1830-187046Ch. 3Selling the Sewing Machine: Credit, Advertising, and Republican Modernity, 1870-190074Ch. 4The Revival of Homework: Many Routes to Mass Production121Ch. 5Married Women's Work: Wage Earning, Domesticity, and Work Identity141Ch. 6Unions and the Politics of Production175Ch. 7Social Science and the Politics of Consumption201Ch. 8The Minimum Wage Bill: Work, Wages, and Worth229Conclusion251Bibliography259Index275

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691605111, 978-0691605111
      ISBN10: 0691605114

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      Book Synopsis

      Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the "problem" of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris. The seamstress represented the quintessential "working girl," and the sewing machine the icon of "modern" femininity. The intense speculation and worry that



      Table of Contents
      List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1Women's Work? Men and Women, Guild and Clandestine Production in Eighteenth-Century Paris19Ch. 2Machinery, Political Economy, and Women's Work, 1830-187046Ch. 3Selling the Sewing Machine: Credit, Advertising, and Republican Modernity, 1870-190074Ch. 4The Revival of Homework: Many Routes to Mass Production121Ch. 5Married Women's Work: Wage Earning, Domesticity, and Work Identity141Ch. 6Unions and the Politics of Production175Ch. 7Social Science and the Politics of Consumption201Ch. 8The Minimum Wage Bill: Work, Wages, and Worth229Conclusion251Bibliography259Index275

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