Wage Work for Women Citizens: 1870-1920

Wage Work for Women Citizens: 1870-1920

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Syllabus

  • How ideas of independent womanhood emerged in the age of industrialization
  • How the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution impacted women's political organizing and participation
  • How women worked to gain legal independence
  • How women endeavored to improve the lives of industrial workers
  • The ways in which women's labor organizing efforts impacted trade unions, protective labor legislation, and regulation of capital
  • How married and unmarried women conceptualized their public roles as women, mothers, daughters, and political actors in the early 20th Century
  • What the generational and racial tensions were around strategies and arguments for women's suffrage
  • How feminism arose as a word, concept and movement

Prerequisite

Recommended for those with an undergraduate level interest in history, labor, and gender.

Instructors

Alice Kessler-Harris
R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Emerita
Columbia University

Nick Juravich
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's History
New-York Historical Society

Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning

New-York Historical Society

Intelligent Television

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Columbia University is a private university located in Morningside Heights, in the north-western part of the borough of Manhattan, in New York (United States). Its origins lie in King's College, founded in 1754 by King George II of Great Britain. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States and is part of the Ivy League group of eight of the country's oldest, most famous, most prestigious and most elitist universities.

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