Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913

The Cotton and Metal Industries in England
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-23929-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Reihe: Women's and Gender History

Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835 - 1913 examines the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour. It demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh realities of working-class life that forced women into such unfeminine trades as chain-making and brass polishing. Thus discourses constructing women as wives and mothers, or associating women's work with distinctly feminine attributes, were often undercut and subverted.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgan, Carol E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introductory essay – gender in labor history; Part I Negotiating gender difference in the cotton district; Chapter 2 Cooperation, conflict, and community; Chapter 3 Shaping women’s identities; Part II Female labor and gender difference in the small metal industries; Chapter 4 Gender at work; Chapter 5 Gender divisions and class relations; Chapter 6 Gender, class, and community in the Black Country; Chapter 7 Negotiating gender difference in the small metal industries; Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Morgan, Carol E.