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![Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 by Joanne Meyerowitz](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBOHFTSWc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--5e099340f443fedb36963f42ee38d70c489f1a95/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Women%20Adrift-%20Independent%20Wage%20Earners%20in%20Chicago,%201880-1930.jpg)
248 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226521985
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12 March 1991
Description
Starting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of single women's experiences as they lived apart from their families. In an era when family all but defin...
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248 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226521985
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12 March 1991
Description
Starting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of single women's experiences as they lived apart from their families. In an era when family all but defin...