Women in an Industrializing Society

England 1750-1800

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

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Beskrivning

This book examines the experiences of women in an industrializing society, not only in their paid employment, but also in the home. Both are vital to understanding the role women played in the industrial revolution in England. Jane Rendall draws upon the most recent work on the social history of the nineteenth century to consider the economic changes that brought new divisions of labour between the sexes in the working-class family and the growth of the ideal of 'separate spheres' for middle-class men and women. She shows how, by the end of the period, domestic labour, both paid and unpaid, and the responsibilities of motherhood has become the expected occupation of the majority of women.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1990-12-06
Mått:140 x 216 x 9 mm
Vikt:170 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:120
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780631153030

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Mer om författaren

Jane Rendall is interested in eighteenth and nineteenth century women's history and in the history of ideas. She is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York and also teaches in the Centre for Women's Studies at York.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements vi Introduction 11 Women's Paid Employment 1750-1830 11Women in the Countryside 13Urban Women: The Old Trades and the New Industries 262 Women, the Family and Economic Change 1750-1830 33The Working-Class Family: Conventions and Change 36Middle-Class Women and the Shaping of the Pre-Victorian Family: Domestic Ideology 44Domestic Practice in the Middle-Class Family 493 Women's Paid Employment 1830-1880 55Women in the Textile Trades 58Women's Trades and the Growth of the Sweated Trades 64New Jobs for Women 714 Domestic Life and Labour 79Housing in an Industrial Age 81The Labor of Housework 85Motherhood 90Domestic Service 98References and Further Reading 103Index 108