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Work in literature --- Working class women in literature

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While issues surrounding women and work may be more subtle today than in the past, problems of workplace equity, child-rearing, and domestic labor pose problems of balance that continue to evade solution as women today face substantial shifts in the meanings and practices of marriage, work, and reproduction amid a globalized economy. The essays in Women and Work: The Labors of Self-Fashioning explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being wome...

English fiction --- American fiction --- Women employees in literature. --- Working class women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Women authors

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English fiction --- Literature and society --- Man-woman relationships in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Social classes in literature. --- Working class women in literature. --- History and criticism --- History

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American fiction --- American fiction --- Sex role in literature. --- Social classes in literature. --- Women and literature --- Women in literature. --- Working class women in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History

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In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature—from autobiographies, pamphlet novels, and theatrical melodrama to seduction tales and labor periodicals—Merish recovers working-class women's vital presence as writers and readers in the antebellum era. Her reading of texts by a diverse collection of factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes boldly challenges the purportedly masculine character of class dissent during this era. Whether addressing portrayals of white New England "factory girls," fictional accounts of African American domestic workers, or the first-person narratives of Mexican women working in the missions of Mexican California, Merish unsettles the traditional association of whiteness with the working class to document forms of cross-racial class identification and solidarity. In so doing, she restores the tradition of working women's class protest and dissent, shows how race and gender are central to class identity, and traces the ways working women understood themselves and were understood as workers and class subjects.

Working class women --- Working class women in literature. --- Literature and society --- Women textile workers --- American literature --- Social classes in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Popular culture --- Social conditions --- History --- History and criticism.