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Wallis, Eileen V.

Earning power : women and work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930 / Eileen V. Wallis. - Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages) : illustrations - The urban West series . - Urban West. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Women in white-collar work -- Servants and retail workers in Los Angeles -- Working women and the limits of welfare capitalism -- Race, class, and gender in Los Angeles's unions -- Suffrage and politics in Los Angeles -- Immigrant women, work, and Americanization -- Wartime, protest, and new industries.

ISBN: 9780874178142 (electronic bk.) 0874178142 (electronic bk.) 9780874178135 (hbk. ; alk. paper) 0874178134 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--Employment--History.--California--Los Angeles
Women employees--History.--California--Los Angeles
Women--Social conditions--History.--California--Los Angeles
Personnel féminin--Histoire.--Californie--Los Angeles
Femmes--Conditions sociales.--Californie--Los Angeles
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Labor & Industrial Relations.
Women employees.
Women--Employment.
Women--Social conditions.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
California--Los Angeles.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History

LC Class. No.: HD6096.C3 / W35 2010eb

Dewey Class. No.: 331.409794/94