Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

[Arwen P. Mohun] ✓ Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American citiesproducts of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike the more familiar examples of industrialization, these cleanliness factories remained powerfully identified with domesticity. In Steam Laundries, Arwen Mohun explores broader issues of how gender has shaped how everyday work gets done, who does the work, and how the work is valued. The British-American comparison further reveals differences ow

Author	:	Arwen P. Mohun
Rating	:	4.34 (959 Votes)
Asin	:	0801872464
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	368 Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-02-27
Language	:	English

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Arwen P. Mohun is an associate professor of history at the University of Delaware.

Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American citiesproducts of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike the more familiar examples of industrialization, these cleanliness factories remained powerfully identified with domesticity. In Steam Laundries, Arwen Mohun explores broader issues of how gender has shaped how everyday work gets done, who does the work, and how the work is valued. The British-American comparison further reveals differences owing to culture, regulation, and social structure as well as the unexpected transatlantic character of this seemingly localized business.

(Nancy Page Fernandez Journal of American History)Steam Laundries is an important contribution to our understanding of the gendered history of technology in Britain and the United States. (Jay Kleinberg Times Literary Supplement)Arwen Mohun has written a fascinating account of the rise, growth, and decline of a little-noticed industry This is a significant book that advances scholarship on the relationship of technology, gender, and culture. Mohun's scholarship not only succeeds but also compels us to consider what lessons might be learned from other neglected industries. (Patricia Malcolmson Technology and Culture)Steam Laundries represents a new generation of history of technology scholarship. Steam Laundries explores the permeable boundarie

"Definitive women's history in a little-known field" according to Cynthia Rose. This is a delightful and readable work of primary-source research on a topic that has essentially never been written up. As someone who found it when (successfully) landmarking a steam laundry in Seattle, it was useful as well as fascinating. Although it covers the East Coast and midWest and contr