English Laundresses. A social history, 1850-1930
Details:
- Author(s) Malcolmson, Patricia E
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1986
- Pages 220pp; illus
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Place Published Chicago IL
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, 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:
Scholarly study. Deals with the changing circumstances of the English woman laundry worker over almost 100 years covering: work, health, life style, family, attitudes and habits. Its themes include: relationship between home and work; household budgets of poor; growth of service sector; movement of an industry from handwork to mechanisation; etc. Chapters include: 'Hand laundry work and the family economy'; 'Regulating the trade'; 'Amelioration, administration and public policy'; 'Self help, sisterly help and industrial action'; 'Mechanisation and social change'