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Making Choices, Making Do - Lois Rita Helmbold

Making Choices, Making Do

Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression
Buch | Softcover
282 Seiten
2022
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2643-4 (ISBN)
CHF 57,60 inkl. MwSt
Offers a comparative study of Black and White working class women’s survival strategies during the Great Depression. The book fills the gap in the labour history of women, both Black and White, during the Depression, and challenges the limits of segregated histories and encourages more comparative analyses.
Making Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and white working-class women’s survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based on analysis of employment histories and Depression-era interviews of 1,340 women in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and South Bend and letters from domestic workers, Lois Helmbold discovered that Black women lost work more rapidly and in greater proportions. The benefits that white women accrued because of structural racism meant they avoided the utter destitution that more commonly swallowed their Black peers. When let go from a job, a white woman was more successful in securing a less desirable job, while Black women, especially older Black women, were pushed out of the labor force entirely. Helmbold found that working-class women practiced the same strategies, but institutionalized racism in employment, housing, and relief assured that Black women worked harder, but fared worse. Making Choices, Making Do strives to fill the gap in the labor history of women, both Black and white. The book will challenge the limits of segregated histories and encourage more comparative analyses.



 

Lois Rita Helmbold is an independent American historian and women's studies scholar. She was a professor and chair of the women's studies department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas until she retired. She is now an anti-racism social activist in Oakland, California. 

Preface: My History and Positionality

Abbreviation in Text and Notes

Citation Conventions

Introduction

1. Urban Working-Class Daily Lives and Work in the 1920s

2. Job Deterioration and Unemployment: "You just can't depend on a steady job at all."

3. Employment Strategies and their Consequences

4. The Family Economy: Daily Survival and Management of Resources

5. Interrupted Expectations: Loyalty and Conflict in the Family Economy

6. Outside the Family Economy: “Most times I’d go to a friend.”

7. Relief: "I never thought I would come to this. I am so willing and anxious to work."

Conclusion: Working-Class Women’s Class and Race Consciousness

Acknowledgements

Appendix 1: Interview Sources

Appendix 2: Women’s Bureau Social Scientists

Appendix 3: The Census

Tables

End notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 33 b&w images, 8 tables
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 64 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Wirtschaft Allgemeines / Lexika
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Personalwesen
ISBN-10 1-9788-2643-5 / 1978826435
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-2643-4 / 9781978826434
Zustand Neuware
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