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Adapting to Capitalism
Pamela Sharpe
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Description for Adapting to Capitalism
Hardback. Considering patterns of women's employment from 1700 to 1850, this text focuses on Essex to examine contemporary debates such as the sexual division of labour, continuity or change in women's employment, "separate spheres", "domestic ideology", and the effects of capitalism on women's employment. Series: Studies in Gender History. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAS; 3JF; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 455.
This book considers patterns of women's employment in the period 1700-1850. Focusing on the county of Essex, material on the worsted industry, agriculture, fashion trades, service, prostitution, and marriage and family life will shed light on contemporary debates in history such as the sexual division of labour, controversy over continuity or change in women's employment, the importance of ideas of 'separate spheres' and 'domestic ideology', and the overall effects of capitalism on women's employment.
This book considers patterns of women's employment in the period 1700-1850. Focusing on the county of Essex, material on the worsted industry, agriculture, fashion trades, service, prostitution, and marriage and family life will shed light on contemporary debates in history such as the sexual division of labour, controversy over continuity or change in women's employment, the importance of ideas of 'separate spheres' and 'domestic ideology', and the overall effects of capitalism on women's employment.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Gender History
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333633915
SKU
V9780333633915
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99-15
About Pamela Sharpe
PAMELA SHARPE is currently Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth. She was Lecturer in Social and Economic History at the University of Bristol from 1993 to 1999. The author received an MA (Hons) in Economic History from the University of Edinburgh and completed a doctorate in demographic history at the Cambridge Group for ... Read more
Reviews for Adapting to Capitalism
'Sharpe's study is one of the best, most meticulous monographs on all the ways that women worked in the early industrial period. Women indeed adapted to capitalism and it has taken decades to bring to light all the costs of that achievement'. - Deborah Valenze, American Historical Review 'the book is fascinating in itself...a model of how ... Read more