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The Politics and Desires of Wage-Earning Women - Lara Vapnek. Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x + 216 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03471-8; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-525-07661-9.

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Lara Vapnek. Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x + 216 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03471-8; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-525-07661-9.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2011

Dorothy Sue Cobble
Dorothy Sue Cobble*
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Rutgers University
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cobble@rutgers.edu
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 517 - 520
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2011

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References

1 Meyerowitz, Joanne, Women Adrift: Independent Wage-Earners in Chicago, 1880–1930 (Chicago, 1988)Google Scholar; Peiss, Kathy, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Philadelphia, 1986)Google Scholar.

2 Levine, Susan, Labor's True Woman: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age (Philadelphia, 1984)Google Scholar.