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  • Home Work

    Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870–1930

    by Ruby Oram ...
    How reforms to girlhood education in the Progressive Era cemented inequalities of gender, race, and class in urban school systems.In Home Work, historian Ruby Oram tells the story of how middle-class, white women reformers lobbied the state to implement various public education reforms to shape the lives of girls and women in industrial cities between 1870 and 1930. Women such as Jane Addams and ... Read more

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  • The Way We Never Were

    American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

    by Stephanie Coontz ...
    **The classic, myth-shattering history of the American family.“The Way We Never Were effectively demolishes the normal, traditional nuclear family as neither normal nor traditional, and not even nuclear.” ―Nation**Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man’s home has never been his castle, the “male breadwinner marriage” is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition

    A History of Social Welfare in America

    by Walter I. Trattner ...
    Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new sixth edition has been updated to include the latest developments in our society as well as trends ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Freedom Is an Endless Meeting

    Democracy in American Social Movements

    by Francesca Polletta ...
    This "excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century" challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy ( Times Literary Supplement).Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A People's History of Poverty in America

    by Stephen Pimpare ...
    Series series New Press People's History
    In this award-winning history, "the voices of the poor give valuable insights into the experience of poverty" ( Choice ).Winner of the American Political Science Association's Michael Harrington AwardIn this compulsively readable social history, political scientist Stephen Pimpare vividly describes poverty from the perspective of poor and welfare-reliant Americans from the big city to the rural ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of U.S. Feminisms

    by Rory C. Dicker ...
    Series series Seal Studies
    The complete, authoritative, and up to date history of American feminism-intersectionality, sex-positivityUpdated and expanded, the second edition of A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced students. Covering the first, second, and third waves of feminism, A ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A History of American Higher Education

    by John R. Thelin ...
    The definitive history of American higher education.For more than two decades, A History of American Higher Education has been the gold standard account of how colleges and universities shaped—and were shaped by—American society. In this fully revised fourth edition, John R. Thelin extends that history into a period of profound upheaval.The new edition adds a substantial final chapter examining ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

    A Social History Of Welfare In America

    by Michael B Katz ...
    With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to end welfare as we know it.”In the Shadow of the Poorhouse examines the origins of social welfare, both public and private, from the days of the colonial poorhouse through the current tragedy of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

    Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lawyers as Leaders

    by Deborah L. Rhode ...
    No occupation in America supplies a greater proportion of leaders than the legal profession, yet it has done little to prepare them for this role. Lawyers sit at the helm of a vast array of powerful law firms, businesses, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. Two of the last three presidents have been lawyers. And yet almost no occupation rouses greater public distrust. This paradox raises ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Politics of Parenthood

    Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    A distinguished scholar presents a landmark historical perspective on parenthood in America. This trailblazing book suggests that behind the rhetoric of maternal responsibility are issues of power, resources, and control. "Berry's book could be a significant impetus for corporate executives and political leaders, conservatives and liberals, and mothers and fathers to support parental involvement ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Diversity Principle

    The Story of a Transformative Idea

    by David B. Oppenheimer ...
    Series series Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
    The surprising two-hundred-year history of diversity in education, commerce, and science from the scholar the New Yorker dubbed America’s “diversity detective�As a war on diversity upends government, corporate, and education policies, the history of the idea of diversity has never been more important. In this contrarian book, David B. Oppenheimer, a diversity skeptic turned admirer, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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