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Author : Ivy Pinchbeck
Publisher : London, Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010593718
Author : Ivy Pinchbeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136936906
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ivy Pinchbeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:463188310
Author : Penelope Lane,Neil Raven,K. D. M. Snell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843830771
The work of women is recognised as having been fundamental to the industrialization of Britain. These studies explore how that work was remunerated, in studies that range across time, region and occupation. Topics include the changing nature of women's work, customary norms, and women and the East India Company.
Author : Thomas L. Dublin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501723827
"I am not living upon my friends or doing housework for my board but am a factory girl," asserted Anna Mason in the early 1850s. Although many young women who worked in the textile mills found that the industrial revolution brought greater independence to their lives, most working women in nineteenth-century New England did not, according to Thomas Dublin. Sketching engaging portraits of women's experience in cottage industries, factories, domestic service, and village schools, Dublin demonstrates that the autonomy of working women actually diminished as growing numbers lived with their families and contributed their earnings to the household. From diaries, letters, account books, and censuses, Dublin reconstructs employment patterns across the century as he shows how wage work increasingly came to serve the needs of families, rather than of individual women. He first examines the case of rural women engaged in the cottage industries of weaving and palm-leaf hatmaking between 1820 and 1850. Next, he compares the employment experiences of women in the textile mills of Lowell and the shoe factories of Lynn. Following a discussion of Boston working women in the middle decades of the century-particularly domestic servants and garment workers-Dublin turns his attention to the lives of women teachers in three New Hampshire towns.
Author : Janet Greenlees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351936736
Britain and America were the first two countries with mechanised cotton manufacturing industries, the first major factory systems of production and the first major employers of women outside of the domestic environment. The combination of being new wage earners in the first trans-national industry and their public prominence as workers makes these women's role as employees significant; they set the early standard for women as waged labour, to which later female workers were compared. This book analyses how women workers influenced patterns of industrial organization and offers a new perspective on relationships between gender and work and on industrial development. The primary theme of the study is the attempt to control the work process through co-operation, coercion and conflict between women workers, their male counterparts and manufacturers. Drawing upon examples of women's subversive activities and attitudes toward the discourses of labour, the book emphasizes the variety of women's work experiences. By using this diversity of experience in a comparative way, the book reaches conclusions that challenge a variety of historical concepts, including separate spheres of influence for men and women and related economic theories, for example that women were passive players in the workplace, evolutionary theories with respect to industrial development, and business culture within and between the two industries. Overall it provides the fresh approach that highlights and explains women's agency as operatives and paid workers during industrialization.
Author : Bridget Hill
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0773512705
In this fundamental reassessment of women's experience of work in eighteenth-century England, Bridget Hill examines how and to what extent industrialization improved the overall position of women and the opportunities open to them. Focusing on the most important unit of production, the household, Dr Hill examines women's work, not only in "housework" but also in agriculture and manufacturing, and reveals what women lost as the household's independence as a unit of economic production was undermined. Considering the whole range of activities in which women were involved, the increasing sexual division of labour is charted and its implications highlighted. The final part of the book considers how the changing nature of women's work influenced courtship, marriage and relations between the sexes.
Author : Jane Rendall
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0631153039
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 : John Rule
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317871972
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of current research on the social conditions, experiences and reactions of working people during the period 1750 - 1850.
Author : Ben Hubbard
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781406289565
From the mid 18th century, new machines powered by steam and coal began to produce goods on a massive scale. This was known as the Industrial Revolution. Workers were badly paid and their working conditions were harsh. Life was even harder for working women, who received lower wages and fewer rights than men. Some women, however, would not stand for the poor treatment of themselves or others. These are the stories of four trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult circumstances: Known as the "e;Angel of the Prisons"e;, Elizabeth Fry brought about changes for female and child inmates. Florence Nightingale did the unthinkable for a woman of the time and, instead of getting married, became a nurse and reformed the nursing system. Sarah G. Bagley was a pioneering labour activist who fought against harsh factory conditions. "e;Mother"e; Jones earned the title of "e;most dangerous woman in America"e; by travelling around the country urging coal miners and mill workers to stand up for their rights. Many of the rights women have today are down to their actions. They helped change society's image of women forever.
Author : Carol E. Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136367892
Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835 - 1913 examines the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour. It demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh realities of working-class life that forced women into such unfeminine trades as chain-making and brass polishing. Thus discourses constructing women as wives and mothers, or associating women's work with distinctly feminine attributes, were often undercut and subverted.
Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317862093
The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain. The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britain’s transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation. This fully revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive range of pedagogical material to support the text, including a Glossary of terms, people and parliamentary acts, new primary source documents and a brand new Chronology and ‘Who’s Who’ section. The Birth of Industrial Britain provides an essential up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British society for students at all levels.
Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114676591
The companion volume to The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic Change, together they provide a comprehensive guide to Britain's development as the first industrial power. This volume focuses on the social impact of early industrializaton on the population and looks at living standards, work and leisure, crime and the law, religion, education, the Poor Law and popular protest. An excellent introduction providing a clear and readable account for students of modern British social and economic history.
Author : Nicola Verdon
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0851159060
The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants, as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from across England. The roles village women performed in the informal rural economy (household labour, gathering resources and exploiting systems of barterand exchange) are also assessed. Changes in women's economic opportunities are explored, alongside the implications of region, age, marital status, number of children in the family and local custom; women's economic contribution to the rural labouring household is established as a critical part of family subsistence, despite criticism of such work and the rise in male wages after 1850. NICOLA VERDON is a Research Fellow in the Rural History Centre, University of Reading.
Author : Jane Humphries
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139489287
This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.