Items related to Caught in the Crisis: Women and the U. S. Economy Today
Synopsis
PARTIAL LIST OF KEYWORDS: affirmative action; abortion; NWRO; Randy Albelda; Eileen Applebaum; Donald Bartlett; Sydney Blumenthal; Dileen Boris; Polly Callaghan; Jim Campen; capital flight; carpal tunnel syndrome; Citizens for Tax Justice; comparable worth; Camille Colatosti; contingent work; cumulative trauma disorder; deindustrialization; Thomas Byrne Edsall; Barbara Ehrenreich; Susan Faludi; nancy Folbre; Harvey Gantt; Arline Geronimus; ghettoization; hacienda system; gay and lesbian households; Jane Humphries; informal economy; Carol Kleiman; labor force; Magie Mahar; Julie Matthaei; Elaine McCrate; moonlighting; Diana Pearce; Kavita Ramdas; resegregation; Barbara Reskin; safety net; Southern Regional Project on Infant Mortality; underemployment; etc., etc.
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About the Author
Teresa Amott is Associate Professor of Economics at Bucknell University, an Editorial Associate of Dollars & Sense, and co-author with Julie Matthaei of Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural History of Women in the United States (1991).
From Library Journal
Emphasizing the effect of the current economic downturn, Amott (economics, Bucknell Univ.) presents a radical view of women's economic history. She believes that over the last 20 years women have assumed a greater economic burden as they have entered the workplace in increasing numbers, with little compensating reduction in caregiving tasks. In assessing her arguments, readers must keep in mind the author's viewpoint. For example, she describes the North Vietnamese as participating in a "national liberation movement" and Reagan's firing of the air-traffic controllers as union-busting, with no mention of antistrike laws. The reasoning is sometimes fuzzy, and the footnotes do not support the arguments. Recommended only for libraries seeking complete collections.
- Mary Chatfield, Angelo State Univ., San Angelo, Tex.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherMonthly Review Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0853458456
- ISBN 13 9780853458456
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages144
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