UID:
edocfu_9959237185902883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 292 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786610032341
,
1-134-93440-8
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1-280-03234-0
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0-203-16799-6
Series Statement:
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 13
Content:
Integrating analytical tools from feminist theory, cultural studies and sociology to illuminate detailed historical evidence, Sonya Rose argues that gender was a central principle of the 19th century industrial transformation in England.
Note:
LIMITED LIVELIHOODS GENDER AND CLASS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. "Maintaining the Industrial Supremacy of the Country": Industrialists and Gendered Work; 3. "We Never Sought Protection for the Men Nor Do We Now": The State and Public Policy; 4. "To Do the Best You Can": Women's Work and Homework; 5. "Mary Had a Little Loom": Gender Segregation, Struggles over the Labor Process, and Class Antagonism in the English Carpet Industry; 6. "Manliness, Virtue, and Self-Respect": Gender Antagonism and Working-Class Respectability; 7. "Brothers and Sisters in Distress": The Cotton Textile Weavers of Lancashire; 8. Conclusions and Afterthoughts; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-05654-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-28369-4
Language:
English
