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Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900-1950
Workshop to Office Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City 1900-1950
Author: Miriam Cohen
In turn-of-the-century New York, Italian immigrant daughters spent their youth in factories while their mothers did irregular wage labor as well as domestic work at home. By the I940s, Italian-American girls were in school, socializing and preparing for white-collar jobs that would not begin until they were eighteen. Drawing on a range of source...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780801427220
ISBN-10: 0801427223
Publication Date: 1993
Pages: 237
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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