| Description |
xiii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Sex, skill and status: Gender divisions and the organization of work in the Leicester hosiery industry / Nancy Grey Osterud -- Opportunities lost and gained: mechanization and women's work in the London bookbinding and printing trades / Felicity Hunt -- Characteristics of sweating: the late nineteenth-century London and Leeds tailoring trade / Jenny Morris -- pt. 2. Expansion and restriction in employment: Domestic service and household production / Edward Higgs -- Jobs for the girls: the expansion of clerical work for women, 1850-1914 / Meta Zimmeck -- Decline of the independent Bâl Maiden: the impact of change in the Cornish mining industry / Gill Burke -- Lost leaders: women, trade unionism and the case of the general union of textile workers, 1875-1914 / Joanna Bornat -- Strategists for change: social feminist approaches to the problems of women's work / Ellen F. Mappen -- Bundle of sticks: women, trade unionists and collective organization before 1918 / Deborah Thom. |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Employment. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Sex discrimination against women -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Sex discrimination against women. |
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Women labor union members -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Women labor union members. |
| Indexed Term |
England Women Employment, 1800-1918 |
| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
John, Angela V.
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| ISBN |
0631139559 : $34.95 |
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9780631139553 |
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0631139567 paperback $12.95 |
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9780631139560 paperback |
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