A Hidden Workforce. Homeworkers in England, 1850-1985
Details:
- Author(s) Pennington, Shelley, & Belinda Westover
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1989
- Pages 191pp; illus
- Publisher Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Analyses the economic and social position of the predominantly female labour force of homework industries, 1850 -1985. Has chapters: 'Woman's place in the home'; 'Homeworkers: work and family life'; 'Homework and economic change, 1850-1914'; 'Types of homework'; 'The tailoring industry, 1850-1914'; 'Homework as a sweated trade'; 'Legislation and trade unions'; 'Homework, 1914-45'; 'Homework, 1945-85'