Poor Women's Lives
Subtitle: Gender, Work, and Poverty in Late-Victorian London
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780838638071
Subjects: Feminism; c 1800 to c 1900; Poor women; Employment Of Women; Women - 19th Century History; Working class; Social Science; Sociology; London, Greater London; Poverty; Women's Studies - General; England; Labor; 19th century; History; London; Social conditions
Description: "This volume examines the challenges poor women confronted in communities, labor markets, and at home. It analyzes these women's experiences within the households, neighborhoods, local labor markets, and gender definitions that shaped their lives."--BOOK JACKET.

"The study uses a variety of sources, including local newspapers, Parliamentary reports, materials from local history collections, Charles Booth's notebooks, and working-class autobiographies. The richest new source employed in the study is the manuscript census of 1881 for three London neighborhoods, Somers Town, Lisson Grove, and Globe Town.

The work addresses current issues in women's history and women's studies, such as the relationship between women's paid employment and male power and the multifaceted causes of women's subordination in working-class families."--BOOK JACKET.