The World is ill divided : women's work in Scotland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / edited by Eleanor Gordon and Esther Breitenbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Eleanor.

Breitenbach, Esther.

Series:

Edinburgh education and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Scotland--History.

Women.

Women--Scotland--Social conditions.

Working class women--Scotland--History.

Working class women.

History.

Social conditions.

Women--Employment.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

viii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New York : Columbia Univerisity Press [North American distributor], [1990]

Contents:

The view from the workplace : women's memories of work in Stirling, c. 1910-c. 1950 / Jayne D. Stephenson and Callum G. Brown

The wages of sin : women, work and sexuality in the nineteenth century / Linda Mahood

Women in the printing and paper trades in Edwardian Scotland / Siân Reynolds

Early Glasgow women medical graduates / Wendy Alexander

'Ye never got a spell to think about it.' Young women and employment in the inter-war period : a case study of a textile village / James J. Smyth

In bondage : the female farm worker in south-east Scotland / Barbara W. Robertson

Rural and urban women in domestic service / Lynn Jamieson

Fit work for women : sweated home-workers in Glasgow, c. 1875-1914 / Alice J. Albert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748601163

0748602127

OCLC:

23972965