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Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, Honolulu. – 1988
This eight-page tabloid-style report presents an overview of past and present working conditions in the United States as a whole and in Hawaii in particular, with emphasis on women and on lower-level workers. The seven articles in the paper cover the following topics: "A Brief History of Labor in Hawaii" (William J. Puette); "The…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employees
Peer reviewedStanley, Amy Dru – Journal of American History, 1988
Explores how the post-bellum U.S. code of contract denied married women the right to own their labor and their wages. Maps the legal symmetry between slavery and marriage, contradicting contemporary ideologies that placed the right to work for wages as a cardinal freedom. Discusses "earnings" laws passed by state legislatures that…
Descriptors: Contracts, Employed Women, Females, Feminism
