ODWODL - Marissa Knaak 2/12/2025

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The Limits of Prosperity: Women’s Work and Class in the Department Store
Marissa Knaak, MSU Dept. of History
Co-sponsored by the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context

In The Limits of Prosperity: Women’s work and class in the department store, 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 types of knowledge to solidify their class standing.

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ODWODL - Marissa Knaak 2/12/2025

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