- Author: Susan Porter Benson
- Title: Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890–1940
- Binding: trade paperback
- Size: abount 7" x 9"
- Pagination: 322pp plus endmatter
- Published: University of Illinois Press, 1988
- Condition: Very good; some light shelfwear of covers; lower end of spine bumped slightly; bookstore price stamped inside front cover; interior clean and complete otherwise
- ISBN: 025206013x
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The luxurious appearance and handsome profits of American department stores from 1890 to 1940 masked a three-way struggle among saleswomen, managers, and customers for control of the selling floor. Counter Cultures explores the complex nature and contradictions of this conflict in an arena where class, gender, and the emerging culture of consumption all came together. "Counter Cultures is a path-breaking and imaginative social history. Benson has made an onginal and sophisticated contribution to the study of the work process in the service sector." - William Leach, Journal of American History "Counter Cultures is at the cutting edge of the new labor history and makes an important contribution to our understanding of women's capacity to regulate their working lives. It is well written, coherent, beautifully docu-mented, and forcefully argued. In short, it has all the ingredients for a book that is destined to make its mark on a still-developing feld." - Alice Kessler-Harris, author of Out to Work: A History of Wage Earing in the United States "Counter Cultures advances our understanding of the history of women and work, and it does so in an engaging way that should command the attention not only of historians but of a general readership as well." - Kathy Peiss, Womer's Review of Books "Benson's grasp of work culture is the best of anyone in the field of women's labor history." - Man Jo Buhle, author of Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 SUSAN PORTER BENSON is a member of the history department at the University of Missour and is forner chairperson of the history department at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. She is co-editor of Presenting the Past: Critical Perspectives on History and the Public and is a contributor to Working Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society and My Troubles Are Going to Have Trouble with Me: Everyday Trials and Triumphs of Women Workers. A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, David Montgomery, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Sean Wilentz
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