The first industrial woman / Deborah Valenze.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Finding the First Industrial Woman
- 1. Habits of Industry: Laboring Women and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England
- 2. Economies of Survival: Laboring Women and Agricultural Change, 1750-1800
- 3. The Art of Women and the Business of Men: Women's Work and the Dairy Industry
- 4. The Quarrel with Women's Work: Spinning and the Displacement of Female Labor
- 5. A New World of Work: Female Labor and the Development of the Factory System
- 6. Invisible Breadwinners: Women Workers and the Declining Status of Cottage Industry
- 7. Women in the Age of Malthus: Political Economy and the Feminization of the Female Worker
- 8. Recasting Women in the Workshop of the World: Middle-Class Authority and the Female Poor
- 9. The Other Victorian Woman: The Domestic Servant in the Industrial Age.