Women's Work: The English Experience, 1650-1914
This work brings together formative articles in our thinking about women's work in English history for both the early modern and modern periods. Many of the writings are core texts for essay reading lists and the commentary puts them into context, highlighting different controversies.
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This work brings together formative articles in our thinking about women's work in English history for both the early modern and modern periods. Many of the writings are core texts for essay reading lists and the commentary puts them into context, highlighting different controversies.
List of Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1Sect. IDebating Women's Work1Continuity and change: women's history and economic history in Britain232Women's history: a study in change, continuity or standing still?423Women's history: a study in continuity and change58Sect. IIExamining Female Labour Markets4Agricultural seasonal unemployment, the standard of living, and women's work, 1690-1860735The female labour market in London in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries1216What difference did women's work make to the Industrial Revolution?1497Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male-breadwinner family, 1790-1865172Sect. IIIAgency and Strategy in Women's Occupations8Between purchasing power and the world of goods: understanding the household economy in early modern Europe2099'The hidden investment': women and the enterprise23910Golden age to separate spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of English women's history29411Housewifery in working-class England 1860-1914332Further reading359Index363
