Women at Work, 1860-1939. How different industries shaped women's experiences
Details:
- Author(s) Hall, Valerie G
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 202pp; illus
- Publisher Boydell Press
- Place Published Woodbridge
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
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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 how the nature of / differences in work undertaken by women shaped their experiences as women in different ways. Part I] 'Women in coal mining communities - '1860-1914 - 'Stay at home and look after your husband'' / 'The interwar years - the contrasting roles of mining women'; Part 2] 'Women in inshore fishing communities' - A household economy in the modern era' / 'The inshore fishing community - 'A race apart'?'; Part 3] 'Female agricultural labourers' - 'Muscular femininity' / 'Clever hands' / 'Household, demographics and autonomy'