Resources

Bibliography

Historical Works:

Boris, Eileen. “The Home as a Workplace: Deconstructing Dichotomies,” International Review of Social History, 39:3 (December 1994): 415– 428.

Boydston, Jeanne. Home & Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. New York: Oxford, 1993.

Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Buhle, Mari Jo, Theresa Murphy and Jane Gerhard, Women and the Making of America. New York: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2009.

Cowan, Ruth Scwartz. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technologies From the Open Hearth to the Microwave. New York: Basic Books, 1985.

Crittenden, Ann. The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2001.

Davis, Angela. Women, Race and Class: The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective. New York: Vintage, 1981.

Dudden, Faye. Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983.

Edmond, Wendy and Suzie Fleming. All Work and No Pay: Women, Housework and the Wages Due. Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1975. In the collections.

Federici, Silvia. Wages Against Housework. Bristol: Falling Wall Press and the Power of Women Collective, 1975.

Federici, Silvia and Arlen Austin, eds., Wages for Housework: The New York Committee, 1972–1977. New York Autonomedia, 2017.

Folbre, Nancy and Barnet Wagman, “Counting Housework: New Estimates of Real Product in the United States, 1800–1860,” The Journal of Economic History, 53:2 (June 1993): 275–288.

Glazer-Malbin, Nona, “Housework,” Signs 1:4 (Summer, 1976): 905–922.

Hoeller, Hildegard, “The Cost of the Gift: Gender and Labor in Lydia Maria Child’s Writings,” Legacy 34:1 (2017): 17–20.

Hochschild, Arlie and Anne Machung, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. New York: Viking, 1989. Latest edition is 2003.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, 20^th Century Anniversary Edition (20^th Edition) New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. Women Have Always Worked: A Concise History. (Second Edition) Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 

Miller, Claire Cain, “A ‘Generationally Perpetuated’ Pattern: Daughters Do More Chores,” The New York Times, 8 August 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/upshot/chores-girls-research-social-science.html.

Mokyr, Joel, “Why ‘More Work for Mother?’ Knowledge and Household Behavior, 1870–1945,”

The Journal of Economic History, 60:1 (March 2000): 1–41.

Noonan, Mary C. “The Impact of Domestic Work on Men’s and Women’s Wages,” Journal of Marriage and Family 63:4, (November 2001).

Ramey, Valerie A. “Time Spent in Home Production in the Twentieth-Century United States: New Estimates from Old Data,” The Journal of Economic History, 69:1 (March 2009): 1–47.

Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. New York: Pantheon, 1982.

Toupin, Louise and Kathe Roth (translator), Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972–1977. London: Pluto Press, 2018.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of New England Women, 1650–1750–. New York: Alfred A. Knopf and Co., 1980.

Policy Works and Statistics:

Department of Labor Infographic, 2013. https://www.dol.gov/wb/images/EqualPay_infographic.pdf  (This is in the exhibition.)

United States Census Bureau Infographics, 2018. https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2018/comm/womens-earnings.html

Women’s Bureau, US Department of Labor, “Facts Over Time.”  https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/NEWSTATS/facts.htm

AAUP, “The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap, Fall 2018 Edition.” https://www.aauw.org/app/uploads/2020/02/AAUW-2018-SimpleTruth-nsa.pdf

AAUW, “AAUW Report: Women Still Make 80 Cents on the Dollar,” April 9, 2018. https://www.aauw.org/article/aauw-report-women-still-make-80-cents-on-the-dollar/

Graf, Nikki, Anna Brown, and Eileen Patten, “The narrowing, but persistent, gender gap in pay.” Pew Research Center, April 9, 2018. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/09/gender-pay-gap-facts/

Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “Pay Equity & Discrimination.” https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/ Accessed January 8, 2019.