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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicola Verdon |
| ISBN: | 0851159060 9780851159065 |
| OCLC Number: | 50205598 |
| Description: | viii, 232 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction. Rural women workers: the forgotten labour force -- Women, work and wages in historical perspective -- Differing views of rural women's work in documentary material: an overview of printed sources -- Women in the agricultural labour market: female farm servants -- Women in the agricultural labour market: female day labourers -- Alternative employment opportunities: domestic industries -- Survival strategies: women, work and the informal economy -- Conclusion Assessing women's work. |
| Other Titles: | Rural women workers in 19th century England |
| Responsibility: | Nicola Verdon. |
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Abstract:
Examines the involvement of women in the rural labour market. This work explores the changes in women's economic opportunities, alongside the implications of region, age, marital status, number of children and custom. It studies the range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy.
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Makes a considerable contribution to our knowledge of its subject. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Will now be the standard work on nineteenth-century rural women's labour in England. ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW A fine book that deserves wide readership. AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW A timely, regionally-sensitive, 360-degree picture of rural women's lives. REVIEWS IN HISTORY Clear and accessible to a general readership, not just specialists. ALBION Read more...
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- Women employees -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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