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Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Paper, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11103-4
$28.00
/ £19.50
June, 1999
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11102-7
$80.00
/ £55.00
"Enstad's imaginative reading of the goods consumed by working-class women in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century offers a fresh and illuminating perspective on and advances our understanding of the lived experience of work and leisure in the Gilded Age and Progressive era." — Nancy Gabin, American Historical Review
"Ladies of Labor represents an important contribution to labor, immigration and women's history that is anchored in the broader political economy of culture at the turn of the century. Enstad's skillful, multidisciplinary rendering of working women's lives should help us re-evaluate the ways we teach and write about popular culture and politics in America." — American Studies
"Brilliantly blending insights from cultural studies and political economy, this book is an imaginative, path-breaking study of 'culture in motion.'" — Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
"A wonderful book, full of fresh insight and thoughtful revisions of important historiographical debates. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure is deeply and widely informed, engaging fully with social and cultural history and making sophisticated critical use of cultural studies." — Barbara Melosh, author of Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in the New Deal Public Art and Theater