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Jeanne Boydston. Home and Work. Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. Oxford University Press, New York [etc.] 1990. xx, 222 pp. £24.00.

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International Review of Social History , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , August 1993 , pp. 247 - 252
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