Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850
(Part of the Studies in Gender History Series)
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This book considers patterns of women's employment in the period 1700-1850. Focusing on the county of Essex, material on the worsted industry, agriculture, fashion trades, service, prostitution, and marriage and family life will shed light on contemporary debates in history such as the sexual division of labour, controversy over continuity or change in women's employment, the importance of ideas of 'separate spheres' and 'domestic ideology', and the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0312128770
ISBN13:9780312128777
Release Date:February 1996
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:226 Pages
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