Limited livelihoods [[electronic resource] ] : gender and class in nineteenth-century England / / Sonya O. Rose
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Rose Sonya O
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| Titolo: |
Limited livelihoods [[electronic resource] ] : gender and class in nineteenth-century England / / Sonya O. Rose
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1992 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.3/0942 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| 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 Lancashire8. 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Limited livelihoods |
| ISBN: | 9786610032341 |
| 1-134-93440-8 | |
| 1-280-03234-0 | |
| 0-203-16799-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455740803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies on the history of society and culture ; ; 13.