Young women, work, and family in England, 1918-1950 / Selina Todd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Selina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Employment--England.

Young women.

Working class women--England.

Working class women.

Work and family--England.

Work and family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This fascinating account of young women's lives challenges existing assumptions about working class life and womanhood in England between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the 1950s. While contemporaries commonly portrayed young women as pleasure-loving leisure consumers, this book argues that the world of work was in fact central to their life experiences. Social and economic history are woven together to examine the working, family, and social lives of the maids,factory workers, shop assistants, and clerks who made up the majority of England's young women. Selina Todd trace

Contents:

Young women and work

Earning a living : daughters and the family economy

Entering employment

Mobility, migration, and aspiration

Work culture

"Frivolous" workers? : trade unionism and militancy

Beyond the workplace : leisure and courtship.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-264) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-75601-2

0-19-153611-3

1-4237-8891-5

9786610756018

OCLC:

712015966