{"product_id":"home-and-work","title":"Home and Work","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  The image of the colonial \"goodwife,\" valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a \"dependent\" and a \"non-producer.\"  This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War.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\n\u003cbr\u003econtext 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\n\u003cbr\u003eworth, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46059356324078,"sku":"9780195085617","price":182.46,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780195085617.jpg?v=1736497317","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/home-and-work","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}