Women And Work Culture
Subtitle: Britain C.1850 - 1950 (Studies in Labour History)
Contributors: Krista Cowman (Editor); Louise A. Jackson (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780754650508
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; Labour economics; Women's studies; Sexual division of labor; History: World; Europe - Great Britain - General; Politics / Current Events; Sex role; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Employment; Women; Modern - General; Congresses; Great Britain; History
First sentence: Women's work has fascinated historians since Alice Clark and Ivy Pinchbeck, writing in the early twentieth century, examined the effects of industrialisation on women's labour.1