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Peiss, Kathy. (1986) . . New York: Temple University. In , Kathy Peiss studies the customs, values, public styles, and ritualized interactions expressed in leisure time of the working-class women living in New York. The social experiences of these young women give ....

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.... with domestic duties and family relations. It was during this period that to survive families had to send their sons and daughters into the labor force to supplement the earnings of the father, while the mother cooked, cleaned, cared for the children and manufactured goods in the home. The typical wage-earning woman of 1900 was young and single. The young single working women experienced time and labor similar to men’s rather than married women’s. They needed to, as Peiss puts, "carve a sphere of pleasure", out of daily life in the harsh conditions of the shop floor and the tenement. These young women found pleasure in dance ha ....