Women s Work 1840 1940

• Author : Elizabeth Roberts,Elizabeth Mauchline Roberts
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 28 September 1995

A unique overview of the issues surrounding women's work from 1840-1940.

• Author : Deborah Simonton
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 11 September 2002

The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's Work, Deborah Simonton draws together recent research and methodological developments to take an overview of trends in women's work across Europe from the so-called pre-industrial period to the present. Taking the role of gender and class in defining women's labour as a central theme, Deborah Simonton compares and contrasts the pace of change between European countries,

• Author : Caroline Gatrell
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
• Release : 16 September 2008

What is the relationship between women's reproductive bodies and women's productive work? How does women's potential for maternity affect women's workplace opportunity? How far can women 'choose' and maintain their own embodied boundaries in relation to work and working practices? This fascinating and topical book evaluates the growing debate on gender, women's bodies, and work. Through the lens of the body - and from a feminist perspective - Gatrell considers women's work from two angles, the first conceptualizing the labour

• Author : Elizabeth Wayland Barber
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 17 September 1995

"A fascinating history of…[a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book Review New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books

• Author : Thomas Dublin
• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• Release : 05 July 2018

"I am not living upon my friends or doing housework for my board but am a factory girl," asserted Anna Mason in the early 1850s. Although many young women who worked in the textile mills found that the industrial revolution brought greater independence to their lives, most working women in nineteenth-century New England did not, according to Thomas Dublin. Sketching engaging portraits of women's experience in cottage industries, factories, domestic service, and village schools, Dublin demonstrates that the autonomy of

• Author : Catherine Hakim
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release : 01 January 1996

Dr Hakim tests the power of patriarchy theory against economic and psychophysiology theories. Sex discrimination, part-time work, flexible hours, homeworking, marriage and career patterns, labour mobility, labour turnover and the impact of the European Union are all considered. Analysis of the grand sweep of history over the last century, based on large national surveys, is complemented by case studies of people working in occupations undergoing change and their resistance to it. Throughout the book comparisons are drawn between Britain, the

• Author : Norman Stockman,Norman Bonney,Xuewen Sheng
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 16 September 2016

Unmasking Administrative Evil discusses the overlooked relationship between evil and public affairs, as well as other fields and professions in public life.

• Author : Laurel Smith-Doerr
• Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Release : 01 August 2021

Women scientists working in small, for-profit companies are eight times more likely than their university counterparts to head a research lab. Why? Laurel Smith-Doerr reveals that, contrary to widely held assumptions, strong career opportunities for women and minorities do not depend on the formal policies and long job ladders that large, hierarchical bureaucracies provide. In fact, highly internally linked bio technology firms are far better workplaces for female scientists (when compared to university settings or established pharmaceutical companies), offering women

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 1979

• Author : Betty Wood
• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• Release : 01 August 1995

In Women's Work, Men's Work, Betty Wood examines the struggle of bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognized rights as producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave economy sanctified by law. Wood examines this struggle in the Georgia lowcountry over a period of eighty years, from the 1750s to the 1830s, when, she argues, the evolution of the system of informal slave economies had reached the point that it would henceforth dominate Savannah's political agenda

• Author : Pamela A. Parmal,Mary Holingworth English
• Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• Release : 01 August 2021

Tells the stories of six women and how needlework shaped their lives in the colonies' most important port city.

• Author : Ruth Dixon-Mueller,Anonimo,International Labour Office
• Publisher : International Labour Organization
• Release : 01 August 1985

This study provides clear guidelines for measuring the contribution of women to agricultural production in developing societies, which should be of interest to those involved in research and development planning.

• Author : Courtney Thorsson
• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• Release : 17 June 2013

In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. Building on and departing from the Black Arts Movement, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism—practiced by their characters as "women's work"—that defines a distinct contemporary literary movement, demanding attention to the continued relevance

• Author : Michelle Haberland
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2021

• Author : Gatrell, Caroline
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
• Release : 01 September 2008

Caroline Gatrell argues that a woman's employment is inextricably linked to her gender and that expectations regarding family practices and women's labour have a strong and often negative impact on women's career progress.