Steam Laundries Gender, Technology and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 |
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| Author:
| Mohun, Arwen |
| Series title: | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6002-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $58.00 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
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 ......