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Title:

Women's work : the English experience, 1650-1914 / edited by Pamela Sharpe.

Publisher:

Arnold,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

xii, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--England--History.
Women--England--Economic conditions.
Women--England--Social conditions.
Sex role--England--History.

Other Authors:

Sharpe, Pamela.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-362) and index.

Contents:

Housewifery in working-class England 1860-1914 / Joanna Bourke Women's history : a study in change, continuity or standing still? / Bridget Hill -- Women's history : a study in continuity and change / Judith Bennett -- Agricultural seasonal unemployment, the standard of living, and women's work, 1690-1860 / K. D. M. Snell -- Female labour market in London in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Peter Earle -- What difference did women's work make to the Industrial Revolution? / Maxine Berg -- Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male-breadwinner family, 1790-1865 / Sara Horrell and Jane Humphries -- Between purchasing power and the world of goods / Jan de Vries -- Hidden investment / Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall -- Golden age to separate spheres? / Amanda Vickery -- Housewifery in working-class England 1860-1914 / Joanna Bourke

Series:

Arnold readers in history series

ISBN:

9780340676967 (pbk.)
0340676965 (pbk.)
9780340676950 (hardbound)
0340676957 (hardbound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38536004

LCCN:

98013785

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)