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 | Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (1st Edition) by Jeanne Boydston Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-19-508561-2 / 0195085612 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-508561-7 / 9780195085617 Over the course of a two hundred year period, women's domestic labor gradually lost its footing as a recognized aspect of economic life in America. The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-p | |