'Disorderly women and the consumer market - women's work and the second hand clothing trade' in B Lemire, Dress, Culture and Commerce. The English clothing trade before the factory, 1660-1800

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Author(s) Lemire, Beverly
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1997
Pages pp95-120
Publisher Macmillan
Place Published Basingstoke

Topics:

Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
Name Women in business

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:

Deals with the nature of women's involvement in the second hand clothing trade - recycling, revamping, buying and selling. The nature of the trade earned it the contemporary term 'disorderly'