Women and Work in Pre-industrial England

ISBN-13: 9780415623018 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Lindsey Charles; Lorna Duffin

Opis

This work surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the 18th and 19th 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Charles, Lindsey; Duffin, Lorna