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The Limits of Prosperity: Women's Work and Class in the Department Store
Date:
Wednesday, 12 Feb 2025
Time:
12:00 p.m. to 1:15 a.m.
Location:
Green Room, 4th Floor, MSU Library
Department:
Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Event Details:

In "The Limits of Prosperity: Women's work and class in the department store, "MSU History professor Marissa Knaak looks at early department stores in Britain and Germany to discuss the intersections of work and class. By interpreting the department store as an industrialized workplace, she considers how sales assistants, particularly women, wielded different knowledges to solidify their class standing. 

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