{"product_id":"9780195085617","title":"Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the course of a two hundred year period, women's domestic labor gradually lost its footing as a recognized aspect of economic life in America. The image of the colonial \"goodwife,\" valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a \"dependent\" and a \"non-producer.\" This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labor in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States. Boydston argues that just as a capitalist economic order had first to teach that wages were the measure of a man's worth, it had at the same time, implicitly or explicitly, to teach that those who did not draw wages were dependent and not essential to the \"real economy.\" Developing a striking account of the gender and labor systems that characterized industrializing America, Boydston explains how this effected the devaluation of women's unpaid labor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022776778992,"sku":"9780195085617","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195085617_p0.jpg?v=1763664025","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195085617","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}