Course Description

History 182a/b Women in the Work Force 1700-1990

Explores women's experience of employment including women's paid labor in pre-industrial settings; domestic service; sexual division of labor; work in industrial settings; entering the professions; feminization of clerical work; women's war work; female professions; women and organized labor; feminism and women workers and globalization.

2 lecture hours, half course.

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