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| Title: | Wives of steel : voices of women from the Sparrows Point steelmaking communities / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen Olson |
| ISBN: | 0271026855 (alk. paper); 9780271026855 (alk. paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index. Content: Sparrows Point, Turner Station, and Dundalk : the history of the mill's communities -- The gendered world of steel : it's a man's world inside the Sparrows Point mill -- Boarders and the long turn in a company town : Sparrows Point wives, 1887-1945 -- The family works the schedule : steelworkers' wives, 1945-1970 -- Women steelworkers at Sparrows Point : interlopers in a man's world -- Deindustrialization at Sparrows Point : disappearance of the breadwinner/homemaker family, 1970-2000 -- Renegotiating families with two breadwinners : partnership and divorce -- A larger circle of neighbors : deindustrialization and the web of class, race, gender, and location. |
| Description: | x, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Sparrows Point, Turner Station, and Dundalk : the history of the mill's communities -- The gendered world of steel : it's a man's world inside the Sparrows Point mill -- Boarders and the long turn in a company town : Sparrows Point wives, 1887-1945 -- The family works the schedule : steelworkers' wives, 1945-1970 -- Women steelworkers at Sparrows Point : interlopers in a man's world -- Deindustrialization at Sparrows Point : disappearance of the breadwinner/homemaker family, 1970-2000 -- Renegotiating families with two breadwinners : partnership and divorce -- A larger circle of neighbors : deindustrialization and the web of class, race, gender, and location. |
| Responsibility: | Karen Olson. |
| Year: | c2005. |
| Publisher: | University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2005021392 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HQ1439.S63; Dewey No.: 306.872/3/0975271 |
| More information: | Table of contents |
| OCLC No.: | 61179549 |
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