Never done

a history of American housework

Author: Susan Strasser
ISBN: 9780394708416

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.

Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publish Date: 1982

Subjects: Home economics - United States - History, Home economics United States History, Home economics/ United States/ History, Home economics, Housewives - United States - History, Housewives United States History, Housewives/ United States/ History, Housewives, House & Home / General, House & Home / Cleaning & Caretaking, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: History)