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Never Done : A History of American Housework by Susan Strasser (1982, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100394510240

ISBN-139780394510248

eBay Product ID (ePID)4480291

Product Key Features

Publication Year1982

Book TitleNever Done : a History of American Housework

TopicGeneral

Number of PagesXvi, 365 P. : Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreNon-Classifiable, House & Home

AuthorSusan Strasser

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight28 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN81-048234

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal640/.973

SynopsisFinally 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.

LC Classification NumberTX23.S77 1982