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Protecting women : labor legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920
- Title
- Protecting women : labor legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920 / edited by Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis ; with the assistance of Jan Lambertz.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1995.
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- Description
- viii, 379 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-363) and index.
- Contents
- "Some kept the flag of feminist demands waving" : debates at international congresses on protecting women workers / Ulla Wikander -- Equality for men? Factory laws, protective legislation for women in Switzerland, and the Swiss effort for international protection / Regina Wecker -- "Let England blush" : protective labor legislation, 1820-1914 / Jane Lewis and Sonya O. Rose -- "All these forms of women's work which endanger public health and public welfare" : protective labor legislation for women in Germany, 1878-1914 / Sabine Schmitt -- Special labor protection for women in Austria, 1860-1918 / Margarete Grandner -- Women or workers? The 1889 Labor Law and the debate on protective legislation in the Netherlands / Ulla Jansz -- "Lagging far behind all civilized nations" : the debate over protective labor legislation for women in Denmark, 1899-1913 / Anna-Birte Ravn -- Beginning of a "masculine renaissance" : the debate on the 1909 prohibition against women's night work in Sweden / Lynn Karlsson -- Protection or equality? Debates on protective legislation in Norway / Gro Hagemann -- "To the most weak and needy" : women's protective labor legislation in Greece / Efi Avdela -- Paradise for working men but not working women : women's wagework and protective legislation in Australia, 1890-1914 / Renate Howe -- Paradox of motherhood : night work restrictions in the United States / Alice Kessler-Harris.
- Call Number
- JFE 96-13207
- ISBN
- 0252021754 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 025206464X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 94044875
- OCLC
- 31607253
- Title
- Protecting women : labor legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920 / edited by Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis ; with the assistance of Jan Lambertz.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1995.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-363) and index.
- Added Author
- Wikander, Ulla, 1940-Kessler-Harris, Alice.Lewis, Jane (Jane E.)
- Research Call Number
- JFE 96-13207