The Politics and Desires of Wage-Earning Women Lara Vapnek. Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x + 216 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03471-8; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-525-07661-9.
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Lara Vapnek. Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x + 216 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03471-8; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-525-07661-9.
Dorothy Sue Cobble is a professor of history and labor studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is working on a biography of labor feminist and consumer activist Esther Peterson and finishing a study of U.S. labor's traditions of egalitarian liberalism and internationalism. During 2010–11 she was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.