Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain

Klappentext A major 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. Zusammenfassung A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. Joyce Burnette demonstrates that gender differences in occupations and wages were largely driven by market forces and resulted from actual differences in productivity. She shows that rather than harming women competition actually helped them. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Joyce Burnette, Joyce (Wabash College Burnette, Burnette Joyce
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521312288
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31228-8
• No. of pages: 390
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series; Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Labour / income economics, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history