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Bread Winner : an intimate history of the Victorian economy /
The overlooked story of how ordinary women and their husbands managed financially in the Victorian era - and why so many struggled despite increasing national prosperity. Nineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. 'The great enigma of our times'
- Part one. Work. 1. 'I worked alright, but I never got paid for my labour': women and work ; 2. 'A man's work was a man's life': men at work ; 3. 'Real drudgery': house work
- Part two. Money. 4. 'The meal-ticket': fathers and breadwinning ; 5. 'Father disappeared and left mother to brave the storm': family breakdown ; 6. 'Toil in the factory, toil in the home': working mothers
- Part three. Life. 7. 'Got a loaf, Dad?': food ; 8. 'We weren't happy, but we were a family': emotions ; 9. 'I learned to speak': making citizens
- Conclusion.