Women at work, 1860-1939 : how different industries shaped women's experiences /

This book examines three different groups of women - in coal mining communities, in inshore fishing communities and in agricultural labour. It demonstrates how the work these groups undertook was fundamental in shaping their experiences as women in different ways and shows that women's experien...

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Váldodahkki: Hall, Valerie G.
Materiálatiipa: Licensed eBooks
Giella:eaŋgalasgiella
Almmustuhtton: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press 2013.
Ráidu:Regions and regionalism in history ; 16.
Liŋkkat:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt31nhk4
Sisdoallologahallan:
  • Part I. Women in Coal Mining Communities
  • 1. 1860-1914: 'Stay at home and look after your husband'
  • 2. The Inter-War Years: The Contrasting Roles of Mining Women
  • Part II. Women in Inshore Fishing Communities
  • 3. A Household Economy in the Modern Era
  • 4. The Inshore Fishing Community: 'A Race Apart'?
  • Part III. Female Agricultural Labourers
  • 5. 'Muscular Femininity'
  • 6. 'Clever hands'
  • Household, Demographics and Autonomy.