1st Edition
Women and Work in Pre-industrial England
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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Preface Lorna Duffin. Introduction Lindsey Charles 1. Women and work in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century London Kay E. Lacey 2. Women in Fourteenth Century Shrewsbury Diane Hutton 3. ‘Churmaids, Huswyfes and Hucksters’: The Employment of Women in Tudor and Stuart Salisbury Sue Wright 4. ‘Words they are Women, and Deeds they are Men’: Images of Work and Gender in Early Modern England Michael Roberts 5. Women’s Labour and the Transition to Pre-industrial Capitalism Chris Middleton
Biography
Charles, Lindsey; Duffin, Lorna
