Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain

Informationen zum Autor Joyce Burnette is Daniel F. Evans Associate Professor of Economics at Wabash College! Indiana. Klappentext Major 2008 study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Burnette, Burnette Joyce
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521880633
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88063-3
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; 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