{"product_id":"the-female-economy-wendy-gamber-9780252066016","title":"The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930","description":"Hemmed in by \"women's work\" much less than has been thought, women in the late 1800s and early 1900s were the primary entrepreneurs in the millinery and dressmaking trades. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Female Economy\u003c\/i\u003e explores that lost world of women's dominance, showing how independent, often ambitious businesswomen and the sometimes imperious consumers they served gradually vanished from the scene as custom production gave way to a largely unskilled modern garment industry controlled by men. Wendy Gamber helps overturn the portrait of wage-earning women as docile souls who would find fulfillment only in marriage and motherhood. She combines labor history, women's history, business history, and the history of technology while exploring topics as wide-ranging as the history of pattern-making and the relationship between entrepreneurship and marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eby David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy A. Hewitt, and Stephanie Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Gamber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252066014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252066016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.05w x 0.97d","brand":"Wendy Gamber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070106333439,"sku":"9780252066016","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_30d7d130-d226-470f-96f5-a073e9222e5c.jpg?v=1685428391","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-female-economy-wendy-gamber-9780252066016","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}