"To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980
- ISBN-10
- 0801494524
- ISBN-13
- 9780801494529
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Authors
- Mary Beth Norton, Carol Groneman
Description
Papers pres. at the 6th Berkshire Conference on Women's History 1984.
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