Women In An Industrializing Society

Author : Jane Rendall
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0631153039

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Women in an Industrializing Society by Jane Rendall Pdf

This book examines the experiences of women in an industrializing society, not only in their paid employment, but also in the home. Both are vital to understanding the role women played in the industrial revolution in England. Jane Rendall draws upon the most recent work on the social history of the nineteenth century to consider the economic changes that brought new divisions of labour between the sexes in the working–class family and the growth of the ideal of ′separate spheres′ for middle–class men and women. She shows how, by the end of the period, domestic labour, both paid and unpaid, and the responsibilities of motherhood has become the expected occupation of the majority of women.

Author : Jane Rendall
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Women
ISBN : 0631180990

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Women in an Industrializing Society by Jane Rendall Pdf

Author : Ivy Pinchbeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136936906

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Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution by Ivy Pinchbeck Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ben Hubbard
Publisher : Raintree Publishers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1406289515

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Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution by Ben Hubbard Pdf

Author : Katrina Honeyman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0312231784

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Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England 1700-1870 by Katrina Honeyman Pdf

Women have played an important role in the labor force for hundreds of years, yet it is often assumed that their work was marginal and subsidiary to the more important tasks performed by men. This book explores the ways in which men and women came to operate within two distinct labor markets during the period known as the industrial revolution and explains why industrial capitalism came to depend on a gendered hierarchy of workers. Drawing on twenty years of feminist scholarship it suggests that women workers not only contributed to the wealth of the English economy but through that contribution influenced the direction and progress of the nation's manufacturing industry. This portrayal of women as central and proactive lies in stark contrast to the definition of women workers as cheap, malleable, poorly skilled, and expendable labor that typifies historical account. This book explains the processes by which male workers undermined the value of women in the interests of their own status both at work and at home. It examines the processes by which work became gendered, the mechanisms by which gender hierarchies became established or recreated both at work and at home, the forces underlying the creation of apparently more hostile relationships between them and women during industrialization and she attempts to explain the failure of men and women to unite in order to resist exploitation by employers. Above all it emphasizes the emergence of industrial society in the 19th century as one which was centrally defined by gender.

Author : Lindsey Charles,Lorna Duffin
Publisher : London ; Dover, N.H. : Croom Helm
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0709908148

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Women and Work in Pre-industrial England by Lindsey Charles,Lorna Duffin Pdf

This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of women's work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was originally published in 1985. Several important themes are highlighted throughout the individual contributions in the book. The most significant is the association between home and work. Not only was trade and manufacture in the pre-industrial period carried out in close proximity to domestic life, many household activities also overlapped with commercial ones. The second key theme is the importance of the local social and economic environment in shaping the nature and extent of women's work. The book also demonstrates the similarity between certain aspects of women's work before and after industrialisation. The industrial revolution may have made sexual divisions of labour more apparent but their origins lie firmly in the pre-industrial period.

Author : Patrick O'Brien,Roland Quinault
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052143744X

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The Industrial Revolution and British Society by Patrick O'Brien,Roland Quinault Pdf

This text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.

Author : Debora L. Spar
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374716219

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Work Mate Marry Love by Debora L. Spar Pdf

A crucial guide to life before—and after—Tinder, IVF, and robots. What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of sexual characteristics to another, or to remain happily perched in between? What will happen to love and sex and romance as our relationships migrate from the real world to the Internet? Can people fall in love with robots? Will they? In short, what will happen to our most basic notions of humanity as we entangle our lives and emotions with the machines we have created? In Work Mate Marry Love, Harvard Business School professor and former Barnard College president Debora L. Spar offers an incisive and provocative account of how technology has transformed our intimate lives in the past, and how it will do so again in the future. Surveying the course of history, she shows how marriage as we understand it resulted from the rise of agriculture, and that the nuclear family emerged with the industrial revolution. In their day, the street light, the car, and later the pill all upended courtship and sex. Now, as we enter an era of artificial intelligence and robots, how will our deepest feelings and attachments evolve? In the past, the prevailing modes of production produced a world dominated by heterosexual, mostly-monogamous, two-parent families. In the future, however, these patterns are almost certain to be reshaped, creating entirely new norms for sex and romance, and for the construction of families and the raising of children. Steering clear of both techno-euphoria and alarmism, Spar offers a bold and inclusive vision of how our lives might be changed for the better.

Author : Rosemary Sweet,Penelope Lane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117991849

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Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-century England by Rosemary Sweet,Penelope Lane Pdf

Focusing on the participation of middling women in urban life, Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England focuses on the relationship between urban change and shifts in the pattern of gender relations in the 18th century - a period of rapid transformations in English history. It explores to what extent urban change accelerated a redefinition of gender relations; the connections between urban growth, changing definitions of citizenship, and the emergence of the male gendered political subject; the role of women in a literate, consumer and industrializing society; women's contribution to its development, and how that in turn inflected contemporary conceptualizations of gender.

Author : Thomas Dublin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231041675

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Women at Work by Thomas Dublin Pdf

Social origins study about the employment of women in the mills(1826-1860) enabled women to enjoy social and independence unknown to their mothers' generation.

Author : Jane L. Parpart,Patricia Connelly,Eudine Barriteau
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9780889369108

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Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development by Jane L. Parpart,Patricia Connelly,Eudine Barriteau Pdf

Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development demytsifies the theory of gender and development and shows how it plays an important role in everyday life. It explores the evolution of gender and development theory, introduces competing theoretical frameworks, and examines new and emerging debates. The focus is on the implications of theory for policy and practice, and the need to theorize gender and development to create a more egalitarian society. This book is intended for classroom and workshop use in the fields ofdevelopment studies, development theory, gender and development, and women's studies. Its clear and straightforward prose will be appreciated by undergraduate and seasoned professional, alike. Classroom exercises, study questions, activities, and case studies are included. It is designed for use in both formal and nonformal educational settings.

Author : Joyce Burnette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139470582

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Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain by Joyce Burnette Pdf

A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.

Author : Hanna Rosin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101596920

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The End of Men by Hanna Rosin Pdf

Essential reading for our times, as women are pulling together to demand their rights— A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world. “Anchored by data and aromatized by anecdotes, [Rosin] concludes that women are gaining the upper hand." –The Washington Post Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. Today, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: They have pulled decisively ahead. And “the end of men”—the title of Rosin’s Atlantic cover story on the subject—has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan’s “feminine mystique,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “second sex,” Susan Faludi’s “backlash,” and Naomi Wolf’s “beauty myth” once did. In this landmark book, Rosin reveals how our current state of affairs is radically shifting the power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more. With wide-ranging curiosity and insight unhampered by assumptions or ideology, Rosin shows how the radically different ways men and women today earn, learn, spend, couple up—even kill—has turned the big picture upside down. And in The End of Men she helps us see how, regardless of gender, we can adapt to the new reality and channel it for a better future.

Author : Daniel Bell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1976-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0465097138

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The Coming Of Post-Industrial Society by Daniel Bell Pdf

In 1976, Daniel Bell's historical work predicted a vastly different society developing—one that will rely on the “economics of information” rather than the “economics of goods.” Bell argued that the new society would not displace the older one but rather overlie some of the previous layers just as the industrial society did not completely eradicate the agrarian sectors of our society. The post-industrial society's dimensions would include the spread of a knowledge class, the change from goods to services and the role of women. All of these would be dependent on the expansion of services in the economic sector and an increasing dependence on science as the means of innovating and organizing technological change.Bell prophetically stated in The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society that we should expect “… new premises and new powers, new constraints and new questions—with the difference that these are now on a scale that had never been previously imagined in world history.”

Author : Theodore J. Kaczynski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1365394298

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Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore J. Kaczynski Pdf

Industrial Society and Its Future, generally known as the Unabomber Manifesto, is a 1995 anti-technology essay by Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber". The manifesto contends that the Industrial Revolution began a harmful process of natural destruction brought about by technology, while forcing humans to adapt to machinery, creating a sociopolitical order that suppresses human freedom and potential. The 35,000-word manifesto formed the ideological foundation of Kaczynski's 1978-1995 mail bomb campaign, designed to protect wilderness by hastening the collapse of industrial society. This edition is a gray linen wrap