The Invisible Woman
Subtitle: Aspects Of Women's Work In Eighteenth-century Britain (Studies in Labour History)
Contributors: Isabelle Baudino (Editor); Jacques Carre (Editor); Cecile Revauger (Editor); Marie-cecile Revauger (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780754635727
Subjects: Social history; Women's studies; c 1700 to c 1800; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Europe - Great Britain - General; History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Modern - 18th Century
First sentence: Since Alice Clark's pioneering study most social historians writing about working women in pre-nineteenth-century Britain have tried to throw light on fairly large occupational groups of working women, such as factory workers or domestic servants, often in an attempt to reach some conclusive evidence as to the evolution of their general standards of living.