Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 - Paperback
by Ruby Oram
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ruby OramSeries:Historical Studies of Urban AmericaPublish date:11/12/2025Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226844336ISBN-10:226844331UPC:9780226844336Book Category:History, EducationBook Subcategory:Women, United States, HistoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.60 x 5.80 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCT9FTGS4J
Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930
How reforms to girlhood education in the Progressive Era cemented inequalities of gender, race, and class in urban school systems. In Home Work, historian Ruby Oram tells the story of how middle-class, white women reformers lobbied the state to implement various public education reforms to shape the lives of girls and women in industrial cities between 1870 and 1930. Women such as Jane Addams...
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226844336ISBN-10:226844331UPC:9780226844336Book Category:History, EducationBook Subcategory:Women, United States, HistoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.60 x 5.80 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCT9FTGS4J
Ruby Oram is assistant professor of practice in the Department of History at Texas State University.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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