Women and Work in Britain Since 1840The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women's employment history. 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. Key themes and issues that run through the book include:
Students of women's studies, gender studies and history will find this a fascinating and invaluable addition to their reading material. |
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Contents
PART | 11 |
PART THREE | 12 |
The problem of the superfluous women | 36 |
PART | 46 |
trade unions and other industrial | 57 |
Equal or different? Divisive issues in the industrial womens | 75 |
Womens work before the First World War | 96 |
Tables | 110 |
Womens employment in the Second World War | 162 |
PART FOUR | 178 |
Womens employment in the 1950s and 1960s | 194 |
1969 | 208 |
continuity and change | 222 |
Notes | 249 |
Further reading | 287 |
296 | |
Out of the cage? Womens experience of work during | 130 |
Womens work in the interwar period | 144 |