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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Sect. I | Debating Women's Work | |
| 1 | Continuity and change: women's history and economic history in Britain | 23 |
| 2 | Women's history: a study in change, continuity or standing still? | 42 |
| 3 | Women's history: a study in continuity and change | 58 |
| Sect. II | Examining Female Labour Markets | |
| 4 | Agricultural seasonal unemployment, the standard of living, and women's work, 1690-1860 | 73 |
| 5 | The female labour market in London in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries | 121 |
| 6 | What difference did women's work make to the Industrial Revolution? | 149 |
| 7 | Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male-breadwinner family, 1790-1865 | 172 |
| Sect. III | Agency and Strategy in Women's Occupations | |
| 8 | Between purchasing power and the world of goods: understanding the household economy in early modern Europe | 209 |
| 9 | 'The hidden investment': women and the enterprise | 239 |
| 10 | Golden age to separate spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of English women's history | 294 |
| 11 | Housewifery in working-class England 1860-1914 | 332 |
| Further reading | 359 | |
| Index | 363 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Anthony Rael
reviewed Women's Work on April 04, 2014
Women's Work
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