| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 377 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in economic history
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Cambridge studies in economic history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Women's occupations -- Women's wages -- Explaining occupational sorting -- Testing for occupational barriers in agriculture -- Barriers to women's employment -- Occupational barriers in self-employment -- Women's labour force participation -- Conclusion -- Appendix to chapter three -- Appendix to chapter four. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women employees -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women employees. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Sex discrimination against women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Sex discrimination against women. |
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Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.
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Industrial revolution. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burnette, Joyce. Gender, work and wages in industrial revolution Britain. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521880633 0521880637 (DLC) 2007051670 (OCoLC)181140965 |
| ISBN |
9780511394911 (electronic book) |
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0511394918 (electronic book) |
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0511392192 (electronic book) |
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9780511392191 (electronic book) |
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0511394268 (electronic book) |
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9780511394263 (electronic book) |
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0521880637 (Cloth) |
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9780521880633 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0521312280 |
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9780521312288 |
| Standard No. |
9786611370640 |
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