Women at work, 1860-1939 : how different industries shaped women's experiences /

This book examines three different groups of women - in coal mining communities, in inshore fishing communities and in agricultural labour. It demonstrates how the work these groups undertook was fundamental in shaping their experiences as women in different ways and shows that women's experien...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, Valerie G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, 2013.
Colección:Regions and regionalism in history ; 16.
Temas:
Women > Employment > England, North East > History.
Wives > Effect of husband's employment on > England, North East > History.
Working class women > England, North East > History.
Sexual division of labor > England, North East > History.
Femmes mariées > Effets du travail du mari sur > Angleterre (Nord-Est) > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Sexual division of labor.
Wives > Effect of husband's employment on.
Women > Employment.
Working class women.
England > England, North East.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Women in Coal Mining Communities
  • 1. 1860-1914: 'Stay at home and look after your husband'
  • 2. The Inter-War Years: The Contrasting Roles of Mining Women
  • Part II. Women in Inshore Fishing Communities
  • 3. A Household Economy in the Modern Era
  • 4. The Inshore Fishing Community: 'A Race Apart'?
  • Part III. Female Agricultural Labourers
  • 5. 'Muscular Femininity'
  • 6. 'Clever hands'
  • Household, Demographics and Autonomy.

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