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Gender, work and wages in industrial revolution Britain /
A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in economic history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 377 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511394911 0511394918 0511392192 9780511392191 0511394268 9780511394263 9780511393501 0511393504 1107184509 9781107184503 1281370649 9781281370648 9786611370640 6611370641 0511495773 9780511495779 0511390955 9780511390951 |