Lois Rita Helmbold

Making Choices, Making Do

Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women During the Great Depression

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Produktbeschreibung

Working-class white and black women practiced the same Depression survival strategies across race. Archived 1930s interviews with 1,340 Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and South Bend women, and letters from domestic workers articulate common resourcefulness in employment, housework, and acquisition of relief. Institutionalized racism in employment, housing, and relief, however, assured that Black women worked harder, but fared worse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978826434
• ISBN-10: 1978826435
• Artikelnr.: 63365363

Autorenporträt

Lois Rita Helmbold is an independent American historian and women's studies scholar. She was a professor and chair of the women's studies department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas until she retired. She is now an anti-racism social activist in Oakland, California. 

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: My History and Positionality
Abbreviation in Text and Notes
Citation Conventions
Introduction
1. Urban Working-Class Daily Lives and Work in the 1920s
2. Job Deterioration and Unemployment: "You just can't depend on a steady
job at all."
3. Employment Strategies and their Consequences
4. The Family Economy: Daily Survival and Management of Resources
5. Interrupted Expectations: Loyalty and Conflict in the Family Economy
6. Outside the Family Economy: "Most times I'd go to a friend."
7. Relief: "I never thought I would come to this. I am so willing and
anxious to work."
Conclusion: Working-Class Women's Class and Race Consciousness
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1: Interview Sources
Appendix 2: Women's Bureau Social Scientists
Appendix 3: The Census
Tables
End notes