The female economy : the millinery and dressmaking trades, 1860-1930 /
"Hemmed in by "women's work" much less than has been thought, women in the late 1800s and early 1900s were the primary entrepreneurs in the millinery and dressmaking trades." "The Female Economy explores that lost world of women's dominance, showing how independent...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
©1997.
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| Series: | Women in American history.
Working class in American history. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. Fashion and Independence: Dressmakers and Milliners in the Antebellum City
- Female Artisans and Feminine Pursuits
- Villains, Victims, and Disreputable Women: Literary Images
- Part One * The Female Economy: Proprietors, Workers, and Consumers, ca. 1860-1910
- Two. A Precarious Independence: Female Proprietors in Gilded Age Boston
- Understanding Women's Businesses
- Boston's Milliners and Dressmakers: Who Were They?
- "I... Will Admire Your Independence": The Business of Singlehood
- "Not Much of a Help": The Business of Marriage
- Three. The Female Aristocracy of Labor: Workers in the Trades, 1860-1917
- Age and Ethnicity
- Motives: Family and Independence
- Work and Gentility
- Work and Wages
- Madame, the Employer
- Accommodation and Resistance: Workers' Responses
- Four. The Social Relations of Consumption: Producers and Consumers in the Era of Custom Production
- A Different Kind of Consumerism
- The Ambiguities of Class
- Fashion and Beauty: Contested Terrain
- Time and Money
- The Sexual Politics of Fashion
- Part Two * Gendered Transformations: Toward Mass Production, 1860-1930
- Five. A Feminine Skill: Work, Technology, and the Sexual Division of Labor in the Dressmaking Trade, 1860-1920
- A "Feminine" Skill
- Home and Workshop: The Double Meaning of Women's Work
- "Reduced to Science": The Transformation of Dressmaking
- Six. Commerce over Craft: Wholesalers and Retailers in the Millinery Trade, 1860-1930
- Male Wholesalers, Female Retailers: Credit, Gender, and Paternalism
- The Rationalization of Wholesaling
- Industrialization from Without: The Separation of Production from Retailing
- Seven. Engendering Change: The Department Store and the Factory, 1890-1930.
- The Art of Selling: Dressmakers, Milliners, and Department Stores
- The New Kind of Shop
- Millinery in the Wholesale Factory
- The Efficient Millinery
- From Dressmaker to Garment Worker
- The Specialized Dressmaking Shop
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Essay on Primary Sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.