Steam Laundries

Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7246-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American cities—products of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike the more familiar examples of industrialization, these cleanliness factories remained powerfully identified with domesticity. In Steam Laundries, Arwen Mohun explores broader issues of how gender has shaped how everyday work gets done, who does the work, and how the work is valued. The British-American comparison further reveals differences owing to culture, regulation, and social structure as well as the unexpected transatlantic character of this seemingly localized business.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mohun, Arwen P.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Mohun, Arwen P.
Arwen P. Mohun is a professor of history at the University of Delaware. She is author of Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880–1940 and coeditor of Gender and Technology: A Reader, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Arwen P. Mohun is an associate professor of history at the University of Delaware.