English Laundresses
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English Laundresses
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Author : Patricia E. Malcolmson
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1986
English Laundresses written by Patricia E. Malcolmson and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Social Science categories.
On Her Their Lives Depend
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Author : Angela Woollacott
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994-05-20
On Her Their Lives Depend written by Angela Woollacott and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-20 with History categories.
In this evocative book, Angela Woollacott analyzes oral histories, workers' writings, newspapers, official reports, and factory song lyrics to present an intimate view of women munitions workers in Britain during World War I. Munitions work offered working-class women—for the first time—independence, a reliable income, even an improved standard of living. But male employers and trade unionists brought them face-to-face with their subordination as women within their own class, while experiences with middle-class women co-workers and police reminded them of their status as working class. Woollacott sees the woman munitions worker as a powerful symbol of modernity who challenged the gender order through her patriotic work and challenged class differences through her increased spending power, mobility, and changing social behavior.
They Worked All Their Lives
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Author : Carl Chinn
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1988
They Worked All Their Lives written by Carl Chinn and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with City and town life categories.
Clothing The Poor In Nineteenth Century England
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Author : Vivienne Richmond
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-19
Clothing The Poor In Nineteenth Century England written by Vivienne Richmond and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-19 with Design categories.
A pioneering study of the importance of dress to the collective and individual identities of the nineteenth-century English poor.
Origins Of The Magdalene Laundries
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Author : Rebecca Lea McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010-03-08
Origins Of The Magdalene Laundries written by Rebecca Lea McCarthy and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-08 with History categories.
The convents, asylums, and laundries that once comprised the Magdalene institutions are the subject of this work. Though originally half-way homes for prostitutes in the Middle Ages, these homes often became forced-labor institutions, particularly in Ireland. Examining the laundries within the context of a growing world capitalist economy, the work argues that the process of colonization, and of defining a national image, determined the nature and longevity of the Magdalene Laundries. This process developed differently in Ireland, where the last laundry closed in 1996. The book focuses on the devolution of the significance of Mary Magdalene as a metaphor for the organization: from an affluent, strong supporter of Jesus to a simple, fallen woman.
Gender Work And Wages In Industrial Revolution Britain
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Author : Joyce Burnette
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-17
Gender Work And Wages In Industrial Revolution Britain written by Joyce Burnette and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-17 with History categories.
A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.
Threads Of Solidarity
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Author : Iris Berger
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1992-04-22
Threads Of Solidarity written by Iris Berger and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-22 with History categories.
" . . . enables us to deepen our understanding of the organization of working women." —International Journal of African Historical Studies " . . . an impressive piece of scholarship." —American Journal of Sociology Virtually ignored by labor historians are the black and white women in South African industries. Drawing on comparative labor history and feminist theory, this important study traces the history of women as industrial workers and trade unionists in South Africa during most of the twentieth century.
British Politics Society And Empire 1852 1945
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Author : David W. Gutzke
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-04-21
British Politics Society And Empire 1852 1945 written by David W. Gutzke and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-21 with History categories.
This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto for some thirty years beginning in the 1960s. With Lloyd best known for his two histories of the Empire and of domestic Britain, published in the Short Oxford History of the Modern World series, as well as his pioneering psephological study of the 1880 General Election, the essays include analyses of Anglo-Irish relations, Florence Nightingale, Canada, muckrackers, the Primrose League and prisoners of war during World War II.
The British Cotton Trade 1660 1815 Vol 1
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Author : Beverly Lemire
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-24
The British Cotton Trade 1660 1815 Vol 1 written by Beverly Lemire and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-24 with History categories.
First published in 2010. Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture. Part contains ‘Early Years of Trade and British Response to Indian Cottons to the late 1600s’.
The African American Urban Experience
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Author : J. Trotter
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-03-17
The African American Urban Experience written by J. Trotter and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-17 with History categories.
From the early years of the African slave trade to America, blacks have lived and laboured in urban environments. Yet the transformation of rural blacks into a predominantly urban people is a relatively recent phenomenon - only during World War One did African Americans move into cities in large numbers, and only during World War Two did more blacks reside in cities than in the countryside. By the early 1970s, blacks had not only made the transition from rural to urban settings, but were almost evenly distributed between the cities of the North and the West on the one hand and the South on the other. In their quest for full citizenship rights, economic democracy, and release from an oppressive rural past, black southerners turned to urban migration and employment in the nation's industrial sector as a new 'Promised Land' or 'Flight from Egypt'. In order to illuminate these transformations in African American urban life, this book brings together urban history; contemporary social, cultural, and policy research; and comparative perspectives on race, ethnicity, and nationality within and across national boundaries.