The first industrial woman
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The first industrial woman
Oxford University Press, 1995
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780195089813
Description
This is the first full examination of women and industrialization since Ivy Pinchbeck's Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution. Valenze's book is a wide-ranging analytical synthesis, which is based on original research as well.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195089820
Description
A full examination of women and industrialization. The book is a wide-ranging analytical synthesis, based on original research.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Finding the First Industrial Woman
1: Habits of Industry: Laboring Women and the Poor in surh-Century England
2: Economies of Survival: Laboring Women and Agricultural Change, 1750 - 1800
3: The Art of Women and the Business of Men: Women's work and the Dairy Industry
4: The Quarrel with Women's Work: Spinning and Displacement of Female Labor
5: A New World of Work: Female labor and the Development of the Factory System
6: Invisible Breadwinners: Women and the Declining Status of the Cottage Industry
7: Women in the age of Malthus: Political Economy and the Feminization of the Female Worker
8: Recasting Women in the Workshop of the World: Middle-Class Authority and the Female Poor
9: The Other Victorian Women: The Domestic Servant in the Industrial Age
Conclusion
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