05044oam 2200745I 450 991045018120332120200520144314.00-203-00700-X1-134-93678-81-280-18500-710.4324/9780203007006 (CKB)1000000000247428(EBL)169515(OCoLC)319493218(SSID)ssj0000172054(PQKBManifestationID)11177347(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172054(PQKBWorkID)10150565(PQKB)11078154(MiAaPQ)EBC169515(Au-PeEL)EBL169515(CaPaEBR)ebr10054928(CaONFJC)MIL18500(OCoLC)52295097(EXLCZ)99100000000024742820180331d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA history of European women's work 1700 to the present /Deborah SimontonLondon ;New York :Routledge,1998.1 online resource (343 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-05532-6 0-415-05531-8 Includes bibliographical references (p.294-325) and index.Front Cover; A History of European Women's Work; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I: The eighteenth century, c. 1700-90; 2. Women, household and farm; The idea of woman in society and economy; Domestic responsibilities; Household, life cycle and female upbringing; Women as farm workers; Gender and the tasks of the field; 3. Making, selling, serving; The verlagsystem and proto-industry; Women and rural industry; Women in towns: the guild model; Apprenticeship; Urban women and family working; Masterless women: life cycle and independenceWoman as worker4. Location, skill and status; Domesticity, time and place; Gender and skill; Part II: The nineteenth century, c. 1790-1880; 5. Domesticity, the invention of housework, and domestic service; Domesticity; Housework; Context and chronology of domestic service; Who were the domestic servants?; The experience of domestic service; Living-out servants; 6. Rural women-farmhouse and agriculture; Periods and trends; Field work and its organization; Dairying; Fishing; Women's skills and gender differences; 7. Industry, commerce and public service; Women and industrial changeTechnology, skill and genderHandicrafts, homeworking and sweating; Businesswomen and public service; 8. Continuity and change: gender, skill and status; Woman as worker; Domestic roles, family issues and women's work; The family wage; Gender, skill and craft traditions; Part III: The twentieth century, c. 1880-1980; 9. Home and work; The shape of work; The meaning of the wars; Domesticity and beyond: redefining women, wives and mothers; Life cycle: 'birds of passage'; Housework; Domestic service; 10. Continuities in country and town; Agriculture and rural women; Homework and sweated tradesManufacturing and 'new industries'11. New work: white blouses in the tertiary sector; The tertiary sector and 'white blouse' work; Change in the tertiary sector; Women as workers; The work experience; Skill, status and segregation; 12. Conclusion: gender, skill and status; Gendering the workplace; gendering the worker; Gendering skill; Gendering technology; Gendering control; The woman worker; the working woman; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThe 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, distinguishing between Europe-wide issues and WomenEmploymentEuropeHistoryRural womenEmploymentEuropeHistoryWomen household employeesEuropeHistoryWomen farmersEuropeHistoryHousewivesEuropeHistoryHome economicsEuropeHistoryElectronic books.WomenEmploymentHistory.Rural womenEmploymentHistory.Women household employeesHistory.Women farmersHistory.HousewivesHistory.Home economicsHistory.331.4/094Simonton Deborah1948,852239MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450181203321A history of European women's work1903079UNINA