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Author :Deborah M. Valenze Publisher :Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN 13 :9780195089820 Total Pages :251 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (898 download)
Book Synopsis The First Industrial Woman by : Deborah M. Valenze
Download or read book The First Industrial Woman written by Deborah M. Valenze and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why study women and the industrial revolution? Deborah Valenze's groundbreaking reassessment of this classic problem in European history reminds us that questions of gender and work are at the center of our experience in the modern world. Too often, the study of industrialization charts an inevitable and largely technological course. Valenze sets aside this approach in order to examine the underlying assumptions about gender and work that informed the transformation of English society, and in turn, our ideas about economic progress. How did England change from an agriculturally based nation, in which female labor played an active and acknowledged part, to an industrial power resting on a notion of male productivity? Through selective treatments of agriculture, spinning, and cottage industries, Valenze shows how the rise of values of productivity and rationality subordinated women of the working class and strengthened an emerging ethos of individualism. She also analyzes the influential ideas of Thomas Malthus, Hannah More, and other authors, whose publications reinforced these same tendencies in the early nineteenth century. In an elegant and compelling account, Valenze charts the birth of a new economic order resting on social and sexual hierarchies which remain a part of our contemporary lives.
Book Synopsis The First Industrial Woman by : Deborah M. Valenze
Download or read book The First Industrial Woman written by Deborah M. Valenze and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full examination of women and industrialization since Ivy Pinchbeck's Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution . Valenze's book is a wide-ranging analytical synthesis, which is based on original research as well.
Book Synopsis Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution by : Ben Hubbard
Download or read book Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution written by Ben Hubbard and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2015 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role women played during the industrial revolution by relating the stories of Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale, Sarah G. Bagley and Mother Jones.
Book Synopsis Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution by : Ivy Pinchbeck
Download or read book Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution written by Ivy Pinchbeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Women's Business and the First Industrial Revolution, 1830-1880 by : Angel Kwolek-Folland
Download or read book Women's Business and the First Industrial Revolution, 1830-1880 written by Angel Kwolek-Folland and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Women in Industry in the United States by : Helen L. Sumner
Download or read book History of Women in Industry in the United States written by Helen L. Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women in Industry written by Edith Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Industrial Employment of Women in the Middle and Lower Ranks by : John Duguid Milne
Download or read book Industrial Employment of Women in the Middle and Lower Ranks written by John Duguid Milne and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Working Women, Literary Ladies by : Sylvia J. Cook
Download or read book Working Women, Literary Ladies written by Sylvia J. Cook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Women, Literary Ladies explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labor and into opportunities for mental and literary development. It is the first book to examine the fascinating exchange between the work and literary spheres for laboring women in the rapidly industrializing America of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As women entered the public sphere as workers, their opportunities for intellectual growth expanded, even as those same opportunities were often tightly circumscribed by the factory owners who were providing them. These developments, both institutional and personal, opened up a range of new possibilities for working-class women that profoundly affected women of all classes and the larger social fabric. Cook examines the extraordinary and diverse literary productions of these working women, ranging from their first New England magazine of belles lettres, The Lowell Offering, to Emma Goldman's periodical, Mother Earth; from Lucy Larcom's epic poem of female factory life, An Idyl of Work, to Theresa Malkiel's fictional account of sweatshop workers in New York, The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker. This vital new book traces the hopes and tensions generated by the expectations of working-class women as they created a wholly new way of being alive in the world.
Book Synopsis Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain by : Joyce Burnette
Download or read book Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain written by Joyce Burnette and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.
Book Synopsis The First Industrial Revolution by : Phyllis Deane
Download or read book The First Industrial Revolution written by Phyllis Deane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the strategic changes that affected Britain from 1750-1850.
Book Synopsis Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by : Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Download or read book Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times written by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-09-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating history of…[a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book Review New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methods—methods she herself helped to fashion. In a "brilliantly original book" (Katha Pollitt, Washington Post Book World), she argues that women were a powerful economic force in the ancient world, with their own industry: fabric.
Book Synopsis Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution by : Danielle Thorne
Download or read book Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution written by Danielle Thorne and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries saw a period of technological, historical, and even social advancements. Men like James Hargreaves and Eli Whitney worked to make life easier for the working class, inventing machines like the spinning jenny and the cotton gin. But men weren’t the only luminaries of the Industrial Revolution: women of all ages from the joined in the revolution to further advance society. Margaret Elizabeth Knight brought paper bags to the world, and Elizabeth Magie’s interest in politics and economics gave us the much beloved game of Monopoly. And what would we do without Tabitha Babbitt’s circular saw or Josephine Cochran’s dishwasher? In today’s modern world, we often take important inventions like these for granted, but with their female inventors, we’d be living vastly different lives. A part of the Hidden in History series, “The Untold Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution” shares the stories of women who should be remembered for their remarkable talents, ingenious inventions, and hard work, but have been previously overshadowed and forgotten to history.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the First Industrial Conference (called by the President) October 6 to 23, 1919 by :
Download or read book Proceedings of the First Industrial Conference (called by the President) October 6 to 23, 1919 written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Radium Girls written by Claudia Clark and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark's book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea that the tedious task of dialpainting was any different from the other factory jobs available to them. But after repeated exposure to the radium-laced paint, they began to develop mysterious, often fatal illnesses that they traced to conditions in the workplace. Their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease represents an important chapter in the history of modern health and labor policy. Clark's account emphasizes the social and political factors that influenced the responses of the workers, managers, government officials, medical specialists, and legal authorities involved in the case. She enriches the story by exploring contemporary disputes over workplace control, government intervention, and industry-backed medical research. Finally, in appraising the dialpainters' campaign to secure compensation and prevention of further incidents--efforts launched with the help of the reform-minded, middle-class women of the Consumers' League--Clark is able to evaluate the achievements and shortcomings of the industrial health movement as a whole.
Book Synopsis Women in Industry; a Study in American Economic History by : Edith Abbott
Download or read book Women in Industry; a Study in American Economic History written by Edith Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chained in Silence by : Talitha L. LeFlouria
Download or read book Chained in Silence written by Talitha L. LeFlouria and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid work of history, Talitha L. LeFlouria draws from a rich array of primary sources to piece together the stories of these women, recounting what they endured in Georgia's prison system and what their labor accomplished. LeFlouria argues that African American women's presence within the convict lease and chain-gang systems of Georgia helped to modernize the South by creating a new and dynamic set of skills for black women. At the same time, female inmates struggled to resist physical and sexual exploitation and to preserve their human dignity within a hostile climate of terror. This revealing history redefines the social context of black women's lives and labor in the New South and allows their stories to be told for the first time.
