Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 » (1st Edition)

Lara Vapnek is an assistant professor of history at St. John's University in Queens, New York.

Recasting the meaning of women's work in the early fight for gender equality.

Acknowledgments ix

List of Abbreviations xi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands 2

Chapter 2 Working Girls and White Slaves 34

Chapter 3 Gender, Class, and Consumption 66

Chapter 4 Solving the Servant Problem 102

Chapter 5 Democracy Is Only an Aspiration 129

Notes 165

Index 209