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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825748003321

Titolo

Women and work in pre-industrial England / / edited by Lindsey Charles and Lorna Duffin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-24838-2

0-203-10415-3

1-299-31942-4

1-136-24839-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; ; v. 10

Altri autori (Persone)

CharlesLindsey

DuffinLorna

Disciplina

331.40942

Soggetti

Women - Employment - England - History

Women - England - Economic conditions

Home labor - England - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1985"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; 1 Women and Work in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century London; 2 Women in Fourteenth Century Shrewsbury; 3 'Churmaids, Huswyfes and Hucksters': The Employment of Women in Tudor and Stuart Salisbury; 4 'Words they are Women, and Deeds they are Men': Images of Work and Gender in Early Modern England; 5 Women's Labour and the Transition to Pre-industrial Capitalism; The Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of women's work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was originally published in 1985.Several important themes are highlighted throughout the individual contributions in the book. The most significant is the association between home and work. Not only was trade and manufacture in the pre-industrial period carried out in close proximity to domestic l