Women Have Always Worked An Historical Overview

   Divided into five thematic sections, the book illustrates different aspects of women's paid and unpaid work, and shows how their roles have changed over the past two hundred years. Kessler-Harris weaves together the experiences of poor, wealthy, middle-class women; trade union, professional and volunteer women; immigrant, non-English speaking, and black women; tracking their labor from the colonial household to the factories and beyond.Kessler-Harris, Alice is the author of 'Women Have Always Worked An Historical Overview', published 1980 under ISBN 9780912670676 and ISBN 0912670673.