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This book examines the experiences of women in an industrializing society, not only in their paid employment, but also in the home. Both are vital to understanding the role women played in the industrial revolution in England. Jane Rendall draws upon the most recent work on the social history of the nineteenth century to consider the economic changes that brought new divisions of labour between the sexes in the working-class family and the growth of the ideal of ''separate spheres'' for middle-class men and women. She shows how, by the end of the period, domestic labour, both paid and unpaid, and the responsibilities of motherhood has become the expected occupation of the majority of women.

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Women's paid employment (c.1750-1830); women, the family, and economic change (1750-1830); women's paid employment (c.1830-1880); domestic life and labour.

Women in an Industrializing Society

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/12/1990
      ISBN13: 9780631153030, 978-0631153030
      ISBN10: 0631153039

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines the experiences of women in an industrializing society, not only in their paid employment, but also in the home. Both are vital to understanding the role women played in the industrial revolution in England. Jane Rendall draws upon the most recent work on the social history of the nineteenth century to consider the economic changes that brought new divisions of labour between the sexes in the working-class family and the growth of the ideal of ''separate spheres'' for middle-class men and women. She shows how, by the end of the period, domestic labour, both paid and unpaid, and the responsibilities of motherhood has become the expected occupation of the majority of women.

      Table of Contents
      Women's paid employment (c.1750-1830); women, the family, and economic change (1750-1830); women's paid employment (c.1830-1880); domestic life and labour.

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