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Women and Work in Britain since 1840

Author : Gerry Holloway
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134513003
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Women and Work in Britain since 1840 written by Gerry Holloway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women’s employment history. With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research, and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected women’s job opportunities and status. Key themes and issues that run through the book include: continuity and change the sexual division of labour women as a cheap labour force women’s perceived primary role of motherhood women and trade unions equality and difference education and training. Students of women’s studies, gender studies and history will find this a fascinating and invaluable addition to their reading material.

Women and Work in Britain since 1840

Author : Gerry Holloway
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134512996
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Women and Work in Britain since 1840 written by Gerry Holloway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women’s employment history. With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research, and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected women’s job opportunities and status. Key themes and issues that run through the book include: continuity and change the sexual division of labour women as a cheap labour force women’s perceived primary role of motherhood women and trade unions equality and difference education and training. Students of women’s studies, gender studies and history will find this a fascinating and invaluable addition to their reading material.

Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850

Author : Penelope Lane
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843830779
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850 written by Penelope Lane and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of women is recognised as having been fundamental to the industrialization of Britain. These studies explore how that work was remunerated, in studies that range across time, region and occupation. Topics include the changing nature of women's work, customary norms, and women and the East India Company.

Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920

Author : Charlotte Mathieson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317318811
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 by : Charlotte Mathieson

Download or read book Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 written by Charlotte Mathieson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection focus on the ways rural life was represented during the long nineteenth century. Contributors bring expertise from the fields of history, geography and literature to present an interdisciplinary study of the interplay between rural space and gender during a time of increasing industrialization and social change.

The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain

Author : Ellen Jordan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113465748X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain by : Ellen Jordan

Download or read book The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain written by Ellen Jordan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil service, clerical work and hairdressing, or areas previously restricted to older women like nursing, retail work and primary school teaching. This book examines the reasons for this change. The author argues that the way femininity was defined in the first half of the century blinded employers in the new industries to the suitability of young female labour. This definition of femininity was, however, contested by certain women who argued that it not only denied women the full use of their talents but placed many of them in situations of economic insecurity. This was a particular concern of the Womens Movement in its early decades and their first response was a redefinition of feminity and the promotion of academic education for girls. The author demonstrates that as a result of these efforts, employers in the areas targeted began to see the advantages of employing young women, and young women were persuaded that working outside the home would not endanger their femininity.

Women's Work

Author : Pamela Sharpe
Publisher : Hodder Education
ISBN 13 : 9780340676950
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Women's Work written by Pamela Sharpe and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the last few years have seen much new research in the areas of gender and women's history, this is the only book to date that collects in a coherent way the most formative articles on our thinking about women's work in English history for both the early modern and contemporaryperiods. Commentary puts each chapter into context while also highlighting the controversies and pointing readers toward the future directions of scholarly work in this field.

Female Husbands

Author : Jen Manion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108483801
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Female Husbands written by Jen Manion and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.

Women in Britain

Author : Janet H. Howarth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786724243
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Women in Britain written by Janet H. Howarth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The millennium has sharpened perspectives on the history of women in twentieth-century Britain. Many features of the contemporary gender order date only from the last decades of the century – the expectation of equal opportunities in education and the work-place, sexual autonomy for the individual and tolerance of a variety of family forms. The years dominated by the two World Wars saw real advances towards equal citizenship and legal rights, and a growing sense of the impact on women of 'modernity' in its various forms, including consumerism and the mass media. But values inherited from the Victorians were still reflected in the class hierarchy, the policing of sexuality and the male-breadwinner family. This anthology of original sources, accompanied by a state-of-the-art bibliography, illustrates patterns of continuity and change in women's experience and their place in national life. An introductory survey provides an accessible overview and analysis of controversial issues, such as the relationship between 'first', 'second' and 'third' wave feminism.

The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy

Author : Joshua Gooch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137525517
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy written by Joshua Gooch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.

Women at Work in World Wars I and II

Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399071297
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Women at Work in World Wars I and II written by Paul Chrystal and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about women in World Wars I & II - women working in factories and on farms, or toiling perilously in field stations just behind the front lines, in inhospitable hospitals and convalescent homes. It is, therefore, about the prodigious contribution women made to the war efforts from 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, standing in for the men who had left their places of work for the various theatres of war from Greece and Italy to Belgium, from Mesopotamia to France. Their tasks were many and various: keeping the troops supplied with shells, bullets and explosives, keeping the nation from starving to death, keeping hundreds of thousands of wounded troops alive so that they might fight another day. The book is, in short, the uplifting but sometimes tragic story of the many women who stepped up to work in the factories, hospitals, field stations, in transport and in civil defense, on the farms and shipyards, or signed up to the various military and civil services during the two world wars of the 20th century, ‘wars to end all wars…’. The book is different because it deals with women’s labour in both world wars and in all occupations, it covers the discrimination and prejudice they faced from men at every level, military and civilian, even when they had demonstrated beyond doubt that they were quick learners, industrious and proficient, and usually as good as any man. The book raises the embarrassing question why it has it taken so long for the prodigious contribution women made in both wars to be recognized, and why some women workers still remain air brushed from our military history after more than a century. As it turned out, little was beyond their capabilities and it is reasonable to suppose that without their huge efforts and accomplishments both wars might have turned out very differently for us.

Women at Work

Author : Thomas Dublin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231041676
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Women at Work written by Thomas Dublin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social origins study about the employment of women in the mills(1826-1860) enabled women to enjoy social and independence unknown to their mothers' generation.

The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain

Author : George Stevenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350066613
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain by : George Stevenson

Download or read book The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain written by George Stevenson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of the British Women's Liberation Movement's relationship with class politics. It explores the meaning of class to women's liberationists' identities and activism, both nationally and regionally, using a previously neglected feminist cluster in North East England as a case study. Stevenson demonstrates that British feminism was shaped fundamentally by its relationship to, synthesis with, and rejection of class politics. Through these processes, feminists recognised how post-war changes in the economy and gender roles were reshaping class and the Women's Liberation Movement attempted to remake class politics in response. However, socio-economic and cultural class differences between the women involved - linked to occupation, education and background - remained intractable obstacles causing tensions within groups, fragmentations into specific class-based groups and the ultimate failure of the movement to coalesce into a coherent coalition with labour politics, despite great levels of solidarity around particular struggles. Examining regional feminism against the national backdrop, The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain provides an engaging exploration of the fruitful but challenging relationship between British feminism and class politics in a capitalist society.

Women, workplace protest and political identity in England, 1968–85

Author : Jonathan Moss
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526124904
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Women, workplace protest and political identity in England, 1968–85 written by Jonathan Moss and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits women’s workplace protest from an historical perspective to deliver a new account of working-class women’s political identity in England between 1968 and 1985.

Women's History, Britain 1700–1850

Author : Hannah Barker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134436289
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Women's History, Britain 1700–1850 written by Hannah Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging, thematic survey of women's history in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with chapters written by both well-established writers and new and dynamic scholars in a thorough and well-balanced selection.

The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland

Author : Elizabeth Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136010629
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland written by Elizabeth Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women’s suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists. Divided into thirteen sections covering the regions of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, this book gives a unique geographical dimension to debates on the suffrage campaign of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Through a study of the grass-roots activists involved in the movement, Crawford provides a counter to studies that have focused on the politics and personalities that dominated at a national level, and reveals that, far from providing merely passive backing to the cause, women in the regions were engaged in the movement as active participants Including a thorough inventory of archival sources and extensive bibliographical and biographical references for each region, including the addresses of campaigners, this guide is essential for researchers, scholars, local historians and students alike.

Precarious Professionals

Author : Heidi Egginton
Publisher : University of London Press
ISBN 13 : 9781912702596
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Precarious Professionals written by Heidi Egginton and published by University of London Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Factory Girls

Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399011936
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Factory Girls written by Paul Chrystal and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever narrower flues. This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century. Without women there would have been no pre-industrial cottage industries, without women the Industrial Revolution would not have been nearly as industrial and nowhere near as revolutionary. Many women, and children, were obliged to take up work in the mills and factories – long hours, dangerous, often toxic conditions, monotony, bullying, abuse and miserly pay were the usual hallmarks of a day’s work - before they headed homeward to their other job: keeping home and family together. This long overdue and much needed book also covers the social reformers, the role of feminism and activism and the various Factory Acts and trade unionism. We examine how women and children suffered chronic occupational diseases and disabling industrial injuries - life changing and life shortening – and often a one way ticket to the workhouse. The book concludes with a survey of the art, literature and the music which formed the soundtrack for the factory girl and the climbing boys.