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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824286103321

Autore

Rose Sonya O

Titolo

Limited livelihoods : gender and class in nineteenth-century England / / Sonya O. Rose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1992

ISBN

9786610032341

1-134-93440-8

1-280-03234-0

0-203-16799-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xi, 292 pages)

Collana

Studies on the history of society and culture ; ; 13

Disciplina

305.3/0942

Soggetti

Sex role - England - History - 19th century

Sex discrimination in employment - England - History - 19th century

Working class women - England - History - 19th century

Women - Employment - England - History - 19th century

Capitalism - England - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

LIMITED LIVELIHOODS GENDER AND CLASS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. "Maintaining the Industrial Supremacy of the Country": Industrialists and Gendered Work; 3. "We Never Sought Protection for the Men Nor Do We Now": The State and Public Policy; 4. "To Do the Best You Can": Women's Work and Homework; 5. "Mary Had a Little Loom": Gender Segregation, Struggles over the Labor Process, and Class Antagonism in the English Carpet Industry; 6. "Manliness, Virtue, and Self-Respect": Gender Antagonism and Working-Class Respectability; 7. "Brothers and Sisters in Distress": The Cotton Textile Weavers of Lancashire; 8. Conclusions and Afterthoughts; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Integrating analytical tools from feminist theory, cultural studies and sociology to illuminate detailed historical evidence, Sonya Rose argues that gender was a central principle of the 19th century industrial transformation in England.