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FROM MARRIAGE TO THE MARKET FROM MARRIAGE TO THE MARKET The Transformation of Women’s Lives and Work Susan Thistle University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 2006 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Thistle, Susan. From marriage to the market : the transformation of women’s lives and work / Susan Thistle. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24590-7 (cloth : alk. paper), ISBN-10: 0–520-24590-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24646-1 (pbk. : alk. paper), ISBN-10: 0–520-24646-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women—Employment—United States—History—20th century. 2. Women—United States—Economic conditions. 3. Women—United States—Social conditions. 4. Work and family—United States. I. Title. HD6095.T49 2006 331.40973'09045—dc22 2005031019 Manufactured in the United States of America 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on New Leaf EcoBook 60, containing 60% postconsumer waste, processed chlorine free; 30% de-inked recycled fiber, elemental chlorine free; and 10% FSC-certified virgin fiber, totally chlorine free. EcoBook 60 is acid free and meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/ASTM D5634–01 (Permanence of Paper).䡬∞ To my mother, Mary Burnham MacCracken, with thanks CONTENTS List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii 1. A World Turned Inside Out 1 2. Support for Women’s Domestic Economy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 15 3. The Breakdown of Women’s Domestic Economy after World War II 35 4. Economic Difficulties and a Contradictory Alliance 54 5. The Formation of a Female Underclass 79 6. The “New Economy” and the Transformation of Women’s Work 99 7. How and Why Mothers Have Been Shortchanged 133 8. New Possibilities and Old Inequalities 167 Notes 185 Bibliography 251 Index 287 FIGURES 1. Labor force participation, motherhood, and marriage among college- educated women, by race, 1960–90 74 2. Labor force participation, motherhood, and marriage among high school–educated women, by race, 1960–90 76 3. Poor single mothers compared to other women, by race, 1960 81 4. Effect of marriage and work on probability of poverty for a typical mother, by race, 1960 83 5. Single mothers in poverty, by age and race, 1960–90 86 6. Single mothers in poverty, by education and race, 1960–90 90 7. Effect of marriage and work on probability of poverty for a typical mother, by race, 1990 95 8. Poor single mothers compared to other women, by race, 1990 96 9. Ratios comparing poor single mothers to other women, by race, 1960 and 1990 97 10. Employment growth in the private sector, by industry, 1970–2000 103 11. Women’s work as share of private-sector GDP, 1970 107 12. Women’s work as share of private-sector GDP, 2000 108 ix

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