A Lifetime of Labor: The Autobiography of Alice H. Cook

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This book is both graceful autobiography and perceptive social history that will be of lasting value.--Library Journal

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Foreword	p. vi
A Note from the Publisher	p. xi
The Twig Is Bent: 1903-1920	p. 1
College Years: 1920-1924	p. 18
Jobs and Jobs--and a Modern Marriage: 1924-1928	p. 35
Student Days in Germany: 1929-1931	p. 58
Union Days, Soviet House: 1931-1939	p. 71
The War at Home and Abroad: 1939-1947	p. 92
Marriage Ends, New Work Begins: 1947-1952	p. 115
At Cornell University: 1952-1955	p. 132
Beginning a Fifth Career in Academe: 1955-1962	p. 148
The First Year in Japan: 1962-1963	p. 163
New Tasks, Old and New Friends: 1964-1972	p. 183
Studying Working Mothers in Nine Countries: 1972-1973	p. 205
Winnowing, Harvesting, Reseeding: 1974-1979	p. 230
The Decade of Comparable Worth: 1980-1989	p. 248
The End of the Line: 1990-1997	p. 272
Seventy-Fifth Birthday Celebration	p. 292
Notes	p. 298
Select Bibliography	p. 337
Index	p. 343
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