Women, work, and wages in England, 1600-1850 /

Women's employment was significant both for its contribution to industrialisation and to family economies; its range and the rewards are explored. Women's work is recognised as fundamental to the industrialization of Britain in many fields. How it was rewarded is the subject of these studi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lane, Penelope, Raven, Neil, 1967-, Snell, K. D. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2004.
Temas:
Women > Employment > England > History.
Women > England > Economic conditions.
Women > England > Social conditions.
Sex role > England > History.
Femmes > Angleterre > Conditions économiques.
Femmes > Angleterre > Conditions sociales.
Rôle selon le sexe > Angleterre > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Human Resources & Personnel Management.
Sex role.
Women > Economic conditions.
Women > Employment.
Women > Social conditions.
Vrouwenarbeid.
Salarissen.
England.
Work
Gender
Wages
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jane Humphries and K.D.M. Snell
  • 'Waste' children? Pauper apprenticeship under the Elizabethan poor laws, c. 1598-1697 / Steve Hindle
  • Gender at sea : women and the East India Company in seventeenth-century London / Pamela Sharpe
  • Sickles and scythes revisited : harvest work, wages and symbolic meanings / Michael Roberts
  • A customary or market wage? Women and work in the East Midlands, c. 1700-1840 / Penelope Lane
  • 'Meer pennies for my baskitt will be enough' : women, work and welfare, 1770-1830 / Steven King
  • Caring for the sick poor : poor law nurses in Bedfordshire, c. 1770-1834 / Samantha Williams
  • A 'humbler, industrious class of female' : women's employment and industry in the small towns of southern England, c. 1790-1840 / Neil Raven
  • A diminishing force? Reassessing the employment of female day labourers in English agriculture, c. 1790-1850 / Nicola Verdon.

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