Download or read book Home and Work written by Jeanne Boydston and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labour in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States.