LEADER 05044oam 2200745I 450 001 9910450181203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-203-00700-X 010 $a1-134-93678-8 010 $a1-280-18500-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203007006 035 $a(CKB)1000000000247428 035 $a(EBL)169515 035 $a(OCoLC)319493218 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000172054 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11177347 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172054 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10150565 035 $a(PQKB)11078154 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC169515 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL169515 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10054928 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL18500 035 $a(OCoLC)52295097 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000247428 100 $a20180331d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA history of European women's work $e1700 to the present /$fDeborah Simonton 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-05532-6 311 $a0-415-05531-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.294-325) and index. 327 $aFront 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 independence 327 $aWoman 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 change 327 $aTechnology, 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 trades 327 $aManufacturing 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; Index 330 $aThe 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 606 $aWomen$xEmployment$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aRural women$xEmployment$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aWomen household employees$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aWomen farmers$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aHousewives$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aHome economics$zEurope$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen$xEmployment$xHistory. 615 0$aRural women$xEmployment$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen household employees$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen farmers$xHistory. 615 0$aHousewives$xHistory. 615 0$aHome economics$xHistory. 676 $a331.4/094 700 $aSimonton$b Deborah$f1948,$0852239 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450181203321 996 $aA history of European women's work$91903079 997 $aUNINA