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Female labour power : women workers' influence on business practices in the British and American cotton industries, 1780-1860 / Janet Greenlees.
Lippincott Library HD6135 .G739 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenlees, Janet, 1966-
- Series:
- Studies in labour history.
- Studies in labour history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women employees--Great Britain--History.
- Women employees.
- Women employees--United States--History.
- Industrial organization--Great Britain--History.
- Industrial organization.
- Industrial organization--United States--History.
- Cotton textile industry--Great Britain--History.
- Cotton textile industry.
- Cotton textile industry--United States--History.
- History.
- United States.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
- Contents:
- Women, work and cotton manufacturing
- Organising the factory : manufacturers' choices
- The choices for work in textile communities
- Millwork : pay, work and equity
- A time to work
- Collective action
- Gender, health and working conditions
- Conclusions : women's impact on industrial development.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780754640509
- 0754640507
- OCLC:
- 72161773
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