Women and Work in Pre-Industrial England

Informationen zum Autor Charles, Lindsey; Duffin, Lorna Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Introduction 1. Women and work in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century London 2. Women in Fourteenth Century Shrewsbury 3. 'Churmaids, Huswyfes and Hucksters': The Employment of Women in Tudor and Stuart Salisbury 4. 'Words they are Women, and Deeds they are Men': Images of Work and Gender in Early Modern England 5. Women’s Labour and the Transition to Pre-industrial Capitalism

Product details

• Authors: Lindsey Duffin Charles
• Assisted by: Lindsey Charles (Editor), Charles Lindsey (Editor), Lorna Duffin (Editor), Duffin Lorna (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2012
• EAN: 9780415623018
• ISBN: 978-0-415-62301-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Sociology, European History, HISTORY / General, REFERENCE / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, Medieval History, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Gender studies: women and girls, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance