Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940

For Atlanta, the early decades of the twentieth century brought chaotic economic and demographic growth. Women-black and white-emerged as a visible new component of the city's population. As maids and cooks, secretaries and factory workers, these women served the "better classes" in their homes and businesses. They were enthusiastic patrons of the city's new commercial amusements and the mothers of Atlanta's burgeoning working classes. In response to women's growing public presence, as Geor...