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Adapting to Capitalism
Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850
Langbeschreibung
This book considers patterns of women's employment in the period 1700-1850. Focusing on the county of Essex, material on the worsted industry, agriculture, fashion trades, service, prostitution, and marriage and family life will shed light on contemporary debates in history such as the sexual division of labour, controversy over continuity or change in women's employment, the importance of ideas of 'separate spheres' and 'domestic ideology', and the overall effects of capitalism on women's employment.
Hauptbeschreibung
Now available in paperbackWomen's work during industrial revolution - a new interpretationFresh research material from local records for evidence of labouring women 'in their own words'Relevance to women's history debatesGood reviews
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements Map of Essex Prologue: Making Shift Introduction: Women Adapting to Capitalism De-industrialization and the Staple: the Worsted Industry Re-industrialization and the Fashion Trades Agriculture: the Sexual Division of Labour Shifts of Housewifery: Service as a Female Migration Experience The Economics of Body and Soul Epilogue: Continuity and Change in Women's Employment Bibliography Index
PAMELA SHARPE is currently Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth. She was Lecturer in Social and Economic History at the University of Bristol from 1993 to 1999. The author received an MA (Hons) in Economic History from the University of Edinburgh and completed a doctorate in demographic history at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge, in 1989. From 1990 to 1993 she was Essex County Council Research Fellow in Local History at the University of Essex.
ISBN-13:
9780333633915
Veröffentl:
1996
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.02.1996
Seiten:
226
Autor:
Pamela Sharpe
Gewicht:
454 g
Format:
216x140x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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