Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 563 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 563 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
ISBN: 978-0-521-31228-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Major 2008 study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Industrialisierung
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
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Introduction; 1. Women's occupations; 2. Women's wages; 3. Explaining occupational sorting; 4. Testing for occupational barriers in agriculture; 5. Barriers to women's employment; 6. Occupational barriers in self-employment; 7. Women's labour force participation; 8. Conclusion; Appendixes.
