Unpicking Gender
Subtitle: The Social Construction of Gender in the Lancashire Cotton Weaving Industry, 1880-1914 (Studies in Labour History)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780754609803
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; Labour economics; Manufacturing industries; Social history; Women's studies; Work & labour; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; Modern - General; History; Business / Economics / Finance; Women textile workers; History: World; Lancashire; Sex discrimination in employment; Women & Business; Europe - Great Britain - General; England; Sexual division of labor
First sentence: This study is concerned with unravelling gender in a way not dissimilar to the weaver who, unpicking a fault in the cloth, neatly has to disentangle warp from weft.