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Progress and Pessimism
Keyssar, Alex | August 8, 1994 issue

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The article critically appraises two books, "Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States," by Eileen Boris and "Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929," by Dana Frank. Home to Work is an exhaustively researched history of industrial labor performed at home, largely by women and children, from the nineteenth century to the present. Purchasing Power presents a tale that begins with the Seattle general strike of 1919-or, to be more precise, with the boom that transformed Seattle's economy and its labor movement during World War I.

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HOME to Work: Motherhood & the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (Book); PURCHASING Power (Book); BOOKS; BORIS, Eileen; FRANK, Dana; CRITICISM
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