Women and work in pre-industrial England / edited by Lindsey Charles and Lorna Duffin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charles, Lindsey.

Duffin, Lorna.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Women's history.

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--England--History.

Women.

Women--England--Economic conditions.

Home labor--England--History.

Home labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of women's work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was originally published in 1985.Several important themes are highlighted throughout the individual contributions in the book. The most significant is the association between home and work. Not only was trade and manufacture in the pre-industrial period carried out in close proximity to domestic l

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; 1 Women and Work in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century London; 2 Women in Fourteenth Century Shrewsbury; 3 'Churmaids, Huswyfes and Hucksters': The Employment of Women in Tudor and Stuart Salisbury; 4 'Words they are Women, and Deeds they are Men': Images of Work and Gender in Early Modern England; 5 Women's Labour and the Transition to Pre-industrial Capitalism; The Contributors; Index

Notes:

"First published in 1985"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-24838-2

0-203-10415-3

1-299-31942-4

1-136-24839-0

9780203104156

OCLC:

831117986