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Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850
Pamela Sharpe
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Description for Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850
Paperback. Series: Studies in Gender History. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 311.
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
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Series
Studies in Gender History
Condition
New
Weight
310g
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349244584
SKU
V9781349244584
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Ref
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: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850
'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 ... Read more