Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835 - 1913 examines the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour. It demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh realities of working-class life that forced women into such unfeminine trades as chain-making and brass polishing. Thus discourses constructing women as wives and mothers, or associating women's work with distinctly feminine attributes, were often undercut and subverted.

Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835 - 1913 examines the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour. It demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh realities of working-class life that forced women into such unfeminine trades as chain-making and brass polishing. Thus discourses constructing women as wives and mothers, or associating women's work with distinctly feminine attributes, were often undercut and subverted.

Blonde Ponderings of Carol: (Maybe sometimes I have "Andy Rooney" thoughts) I have had 28 jobs and have lived and worked in 3 states. My mother and I have traveled the planet for the past 20 years and have been in almost every major city in the world. I have met and known hundreds of people and have gleaned something from each and every one of them; be it good, bad or indifferent. I must have a real different memory, because I never forget something someone says. All these thoughts have been in my head for so long, I figured I must put them on paper. This is a compilation of what I have...