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Wife of the 'Happy Worker'
Sexton, Patricia Cayo | August 6, 1960 issue

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This article presents information regarding the status of a worker's wife in the U.S. Her day's circuit is rarely concentric with the club and social rounds traveled by her middle-class counterpart. The worker's wife belongs to one of the largest and, in most neglected groups in the U.S. population. It is even larger than Afro-American minority, about 18,300,000, compared with about 17,500,000 Afro-Americans. She does not have time or money for club life and "entertaining," worse, she seems to lack inner resources, the self-direction, the confidence, the assertiveness, the will, to move about freely in the larger world.

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WIVES; LABOR supply; LABOR economics; ETHNIC groups; ETHNOLOGY -- United States; UNITED States
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