Women and work in Britain since 1840 / / Gerry Holloway

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811269803321
• Autore: Holloway Gerry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005
• ISBN: 1-134-51300-3; 1-281-15762-7; 9786611157623; 0-203-08834-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Collana: Women's and gender history
• Classificazione: 85.65
• Disciplina: 331.4/0941
• Soggetti: Women - Employment - Great Britain - History; Women - Employment - Europe - History; Sex role - Great Britain - History; Sex role - Europe - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-295) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Half Title: Women and Work in Britain since 1840; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter One; Part One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Part Two; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part Three; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Part Four; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Further reading; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women's employment history.With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research, and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected women's job opportunit