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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, ©1995.
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- Description
- viii, 379 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Geschichte 1880-1920
- Women > Employment > Law and legislation > History
- 86.63 labour law
- 15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general
- Women > Employment > Law and legislation
- Arbeitnehmerin
- Arbeitsschutz
- Arbeitsschutzrecht
- Frau
- Kongress
- Vrouwen
- Bescherming
- Arbeidswet
- Australien
- Europa
- USA
- USA
- 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 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.
- ISBN
- 0252021754
- 9780252021756
- 025206464X
- 9780252064647
- LCCN
- 94044875
- OCLC
- ocm31607253
- 31607253
- SCSB-9015616
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library