Husbandry to housewifery : women, economic change, and housework in Ireland, 1890-1914
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Husbandry to housewifery : women, economic change, and housework in Ireland, 1890-1914
Clarendon, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book examines the lives of Irish women between 1890 and 1914, tracing the shift of their labour out of the fields and into the home. Joanna Bourke shows how their position within the employment market deteriorated: married women came to be increasingly dependent on their husbands' earnings, while economic opportunities for unmarried and widowed women collapsed. More and more women devoted all their productive enterprise to performing housework. In this
thoroughly documented and carefully argued study, Dr Bourke analyses the crucial elements in this change: the coincidence of sectoral shifts in the employment market, increasing investment in the rural economy, and the growth of a labour-intensive household sector. Controversially, she argues that Irish
women welcomed their altered role, finding housework preferable to many of the other options available to them.
Table of Contents
- Women, economic change and housework in Ireland 1890-1914. Part 1 Paid workers: paid employment
- rural service
- dairymaids
- home industries. Part 2 Subsistence entrepreneurs: household agriculture
- poultry-rearing. Part 3 Houseworkers: from the beginning - housework
- education for the home
- conclusion - housework and the well-being of women in Ireland 1890-1914.
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