Women and work in Britain since 1840 /

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"This essential student resource is the first of its kind to study this period. Working chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century, it examines more than 150 years of women's employment history and the struggles women have faced." "With suggestions f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holloway, Gerry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2005.
Colección:Women's and gender history.
Temas:
1800-1999
Women > Employment > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women > Employment > Europe > History > 19th century.
Women > Employment > Europe > History > 20th century.
Women > Employment > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Sex role > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Sex role > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Sex role > Europe > History > 19th century.
Sex role > Europe > History > 20th century.
Rôle selon le sexe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Europe > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Europe > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Sex role.
Women > Employment.
Werkgelegenheid.
Vrouwen.
Europe.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • chapter Part One
  • chapter 2 'Fit work for women': working-class women and paid work in the mid-nineteenth century
  • chapter 3 The problem of the 'superfluous women'
  • chapter Part Two
  • chapter 4 Women organizing: trade unions and other industrial organizations
  • chapter 5 Equal or different? Divisive issues in the industrial women's movement
  • chapter 6 Women's work before the First World War
  • chapter Part Three
  • chapter 7 Out of the cage? Women's experience of work during the First World War
  • chapter 8 Women's work in the inter-war period
  • chapter 9 Women's employment in the Second World War
  • chapter Part Four
  • chapter 10 Chapter Ten
  • chapter 11 Women's employment in the 1950s and 1960s
  • chapter 12 Women's work in the age of equal opportunities: 1969 to the end of the century
  • chapter 13 Women's work since the 1840s: continuity and change
  • chapter Appendix 1
  • chapter Appendix 2
  • chapter Notes
  • chapter Further reading.

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