The Struggle for the Breeches
Subtitle: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (Studies on the History of Society and Culture , No 23)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 18, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780520208834
Subjects: British & Irish history; Gender Studies; Social groups & communities; Social history; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Sociology - General; History / General
First sentence: Sitting cross-legged on benches, sewing elaborate topcoats with strong stitches, late eighteenth-century tailors prided themselves not only on their skill but on the fact that they worked in all-male shops away from the home.