UID:
edocfu_9960117125102883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-280-54507-0
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9786610545070
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1-84615-150-3
Content:
The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants, as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from across England. The roles village women performed in the informal rural economy (household labour, gathering resources and exploiting systems of barter and exchange) are also assessed. Changes in women's economic opportunities are explored, alongside the implications of region, age, marital status, number of children in the family and local custom; women's economic contribution to the rural labouring household is established as a critical part of family subsistence, despite criticism of such work and the rise in male wages after 1850. NICOLA VERDON is a Research Fellow in the Rural History Centre, University of Reading.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction. Rural women workers: the forgotten labour force -- Women, work and wages in historical perspective -- Differing views of rural women's work in documentary material: an overview of printed sources -- Women in the agricultural labour market: female farm servants -- Women in the agricultural labour market: female day labourers -- Alternative employment opportunities: domestic industries -- Survival strategies: women, work and the informal economy -- Conclusion Assessing women's work.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-85115-906-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846151507
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