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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Selina Todd; Oxford University Press. |
OCLC Number: | 271577772 |
Awards: | Winner of Joint Winner of the Women's History Network Book Prize 2005. |
Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction ; 1. Young Women and Work ; 2. Earning a Living: Daughters and the Family Economy ; 3. Entering Employment ; 4. Mobility, Migration, and Aspiration ; 5. Work Culture ; 6. 'Frivolous' Workers? Trade Unionism and Militancy ; 7. Beyond the Workplace: Leisure and Courtship ; Conclusion ; Appendix ; Bibliography |
Abstract:
This study of young women's lives challenges existing assumptions about working class life and womanhood in England between 1918 and 1950. A wide range of sources, including rich autobiographical accounts, are weaved into this vivid account and highlight the fact that young women forged new patterns of social mobility, were important as workplace militants, and developed a distinct youth culture.
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the book has important things to say about interwar economic change ... Young women emerge in this history as a critically important force for economic transformation * Susan Pedersen, London Review of Books * an oustanding contribution to labour history, women's history, and gender historiography. * Economic History Review * Read more...
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