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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.

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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Additional Authors
  • Wikander, Ulla, 1940-
  • Kessler-Harris, Alice.
  • Lewis, Jane (Jane E.)
Description
viii, 379 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1880-1920
  • Women > Employment > Law and legislation > History
Genre/Form
History
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, 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 / Sabiine Schmitt --
  • (cont.) 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 civiized nations" : the debate over protective labor legislaton for women in Denmark, 1899-1913 / Anna-Birte Ravn -- The beginning of a "masculine renaissance" : the debate on the 1909 prohibition against women's night work in Sweden / Lynn Karlsson --
  • (cont.) 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 -- A paradise for working men but not working women : women's wagework and protective legislation in Australia, 1890-1914 / Renate Howe -- The paradox of motherhood : night work restrictions in the United States / Alice Kessler-Harris.
ISBN
  • 0252021754 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 025206464X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^^94044875^
OCLC
  • 31607253
  • SCSB-10115242
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