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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主要作者: Hall, Valerie G.
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press 2013.
叢編:Regions and regionalism in history ; 16.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt31nhk4
書本目錄:
  • 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.