Title Women and work in Britain since 1840 / Gerry Holloway

Published London : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : illustrations Series Women's and gender history Women's and gender history. Contents Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter Part One -- chapter 2 'Fit work for women': working-class women and paid work in the mid-nineteenth century -- chapter 3 The problem of the 'superfluous women' -- chapter Part Two -- chapter 4 Women organizing: trade unions and other industrial organizations -- chapter 5 Equal or different? Divisive issues in the industrial women's movement -- chapter 6 Women's work before the First World War -- chapter Part Three -- chapter 7 Out of the cage? Women's experience of work during the First World War -- chapter 8 Women's work in the inter-war period -- chapter 9 Women's employment in the Second World War -- chapter Part Four -- chapter 10 Chapter Ten -- chapter 11 Women's employment in the 1950s and 1960s -- chapter 12 Women's work in the age of equal opportunities: 1969 to the end of the century -- chapter 13 Women's work since the 1840s: continuity and change -- chapter Appendix 1 -- chapter Appendix 2 -- chapter Notes -- chapter Further reading Summary "This essential student resource is the first of its kind to study this period. Working chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century, it examines more than 150 years of women's employment history and the struggles women have faced." "With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected women's job opportunities and status." "Students of women's studies, gender studies and history will find this a fascinating and invaluable addition to their reading material."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index Notes UofL: Unlimited users Print version record Subject Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Women -- Employment -- Europe -- History -- 19th century Women -- Employment -- Europe -- History -- 20th century Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Sex role -- Europe -- History -- 19th century Sex role -- Europe -- History -- 20th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. Sex role Women -- Employment Werkgelegenheid. Vrouwen. Europe Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2004029363 ISBN 041525910X 9780415259101 0415259118 9780415259118 0203088344 9780203088340 9786611157623 661115762X 9781134513000 1134513003 9781134512959 1134512953 9781134512997 1134512996

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