| Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850 1996 Edition Contributor(s): Sharpe, Pamela (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312128770 ISBN-13: 9780312128777 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $170.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 331.409 |
| LCCN: 95-42057 |
| Series: Studies in Gender History |
| Physical Information: 226 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 overall effects of capitalism on women's employment. |