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This is a carefully researched A-Z of women's employment, covering over 200 years of change. The entries themselves themselves are based on an encyclopaedic approach, each full of interest and information, as they chart the steadily evolving status of women and the job opportunities open to them. Early occupations considered socially suitable included dairymaid, fisherwoman, governess, and stone picker. The decline of domestic service and the effect of the two World Wars way to the modern era of access for women to all categories and ranks of employment. These include accountants, army officers, and diplomats, as well as captains of industry and even Prime Minister. The Dictionary of Female Occupations is aimed especially at family historians, and contains over 300 entries. Each has some explanation of what the job entailed, the historical setting, and examples or stories of women who were involved with it.
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reviewed Female Occupations: Women's Employment From, 1840-1950 on November 13, 2018
Female Occupations: Women's Employment From, 1840-1950
One of the few times George W. Bush ever rose to quotability came during the 2008 credit crunch, when he was heard to mutter darkly: "This sucker could go down." He wasn't talking about the US banking system; he was talking about civilization as we know it. That's how close we were to the abyss. Another few days and you'd have seen armed mobs looting 7-Eleven's and Viggo Mortensen trudging down the Road.
Some day, decades from now, someone's going to write the definitive history of the financial crisis. Until then, John Lanchester's I.O.U. will probably stand as the go-to book. Written by an intelligent layman'or "civilian", as he sometimes prefers' it bristles with a kind of wtf, dude? incredulity. Which is only fitting. I mean, the world very nearly ended because a Chinese math geek published an equation in some obscure journal. That's just stupefying. The whole story is just stupefying.
At the end of the day, I'd still like to believe in capitalism, which, say what you will, has always picked up the tab for liberal democracy (a point made by Lanchester himself). It's just that, once a century or so, capitalism goes on a wild binge, maxes out the credit cards and wraps the Porsche around a utility pole. It's the Lindsay Lohan of economic systems, and we're married to it. Maybe we just need to accept that, in this relationship, the sexy fun times will always end in insolvency and despair, and that longish stretches of semi-normalcy are about all we can hope for.
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