Susan Porter Benson
#81,140
Most Influential Person Now
American historian
Susan Porter Benson's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Download Badge
History
Susan Porter Benson's Degrees
- PhD History University of Texas at Austin
- Masters History University of Texas at Austin
- Bachelors History University of Texas at Austin
Similar Degrees You Can Earn
Why Is Susan Porter Benson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Susan Porter Benson was an American historian and academic, specializing in labor history and women's studies as well as public and cultural history. She taught at Bristol Community College , the University of Missouri , and the University of Connecticut . Her book Counter Cultures influenced the field of labor and women's history and consumer culture. Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public, which she co-edited with Stephen Brier and Roy Rosenzweig, inspired the Temple University Press book series Critical Perspectives on the Past.
Susan Porter Benson's Published Works
Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
Published Works
- Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940. (1986) (297)
- Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940 Roland Marchand (1988) (186)
- Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public (1986) (80)
- Palace of Consumption and Maching for Selling: The American Department Store, 1880–1940 (1979) (22)
- Class Consciousness and Solidarity: Perspectives East and West@@@Working-Class Community in Industrial America: Work, Leisure, and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities, 1880-1930.@@@Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917. (1980) (19)
- The Cinderella of Occupations: Managing the Work of Department Store Saleswomen, 1900–1940 (1981) (18)
- Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900–1919. By Patricia A. Cooper. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xvi + 350 pp. Illustrations, tables, note on sources, oral history bibliography, and index. $29.95 (1987) (14)
- The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1800–1950. By Joy Parr. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xiv + 314pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8020-5853-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8020-6760-3.) (1993) (13)
- What Goes 'Round Comes 'Round: Secondhand Clothing, Furniture, and Tools in Working-Class Lives in the Interwar United States (2007) (12)
- Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States (2007) (11)
- Home for the holidays (2001) (9)
- The Women's Movement and Women's Culture@@@Decades of Discontent: The Women's Movement, 1920-1940.@@@As Minority Becomes Majority: Federal Reaction to the Phenomenon of Women in the Work Force, 1920-1963. (1984) (9)
- Village people? The net generation (1998) (7)
- Gender, Generation, and Consumption in the United States: Working-Class Families in the Interwar Period (1998) (7)
- Connecting With the Past, Building the Future: African Americans and Chieftaincy in Southern Ghana (2003) (5)
- “The Clerking Sisterhood”: Rationalization and the Work Culture of Saleswomen in American Department Stores, 1890–1960 (1992) (4)
- The Department Store: A Social History. (1997) (4)
- Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Manager, and Customers in American Department Stores 1890-1940 (1988) (3)
- Business Heads & Sympathizing Hearts: The Women of the Providence Employment Society, 1837–1858 (1978) (3)
- The 1920s Through the Looking Glass of Gender: A Response to David Montgomery (1987) (1)
- Social History in the Museum (1990) (1)
- I Do, I Don't (2001) (1)
- Commentary: The Riveting of a Women's Labor Movement (2005) (1)
- Anti-"Commodifiers" in Public History@@@Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public (1986) (1)
- Minding the Store (1987) (0)
- Chapter Sixteen. Consumer Cultures (2007) (0)
- Life of the Party (2000) (0)
- Identity, Labor, and Welfare: the Worlds of Work and Family (2011) (0)
- The Souls of the Sky scraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870–1930. By Lisa M. Fine (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1990. xx plus 249 pp. $34.95) (1993) (0)
- Film Review: Screening Labor Militancy (1997) (0)
- Jeanne Boydston, Home & Work: Housework, Wages and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic . New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xx + 222 pp. (1993) (0)
- Women, households, and the economy (1989) (0)
- Choice and Consequence: A Critical Reading Text (2010) (0)
- Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America . By Nicole Woolsey Biggart · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1989. xii + 223 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $24.95. (1989) (0)
- LABOR HISTORY AT THE CROSSROADS: THE MID-LIFE CRISIS OF WORKING-CLASS STUDIES (1986) (0)
- Book Review: Historical Studies: The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884–1928 (1999) (0)
- Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900–1945. By Sanford M. Jacoby. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xi + 377 pp. Cloth, $37.50; paper, $14.50.) (1988) (0)
- Mr Sears' Catalogue. Prod. by Mark Obenhaus. Obenhaus Films, 1989. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) (1990) (0)
- The Lowell Conference on Industrial History (1981) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About Susan Porter Benson
What Schools Are Affiliated With Susan Porter Benson?
Susan Porter Benson is affiliated with the following schools:
