First Industrial Woman

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Why study women and the industrial revolution? Deborah Valenze's groundbreaking reassessment of this classic problem in European history reminds us that questions of gender and work are at the center of our experience in the modern world. Too often, the study of industrialization charts an inevitable and largely technological course. Valenze sets aside this approach in order to examine the underlying assumptions about gender and work that informed thetransformation of English society, and in turn, our ideas about economic progress. How did England change from an agriculturally based nation, in which female labor played an active and acknowledged part,to an industrial power resting on a notion of male productivity? Through selective treatments of agriculture, spinning, and cottage industries, Valenze shows how the rise of values of productivity and rationality subordinated women of the working class and strengthened an emerging ethos of individualism. She also analyzes the influential ideas of Thomas Malthus, Hannah More, and other authors, whose publications reinforced these same tendencies in the early nineteenth century. In an elegant andcompelling account, Valenze charts the birth of a new economic order resting on social and sexual hierarchies which remain a part of our contemporary lives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1995-03-30
Vikt380 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagOxford University Press Inc
ISBN9780195089820

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och ledarskap

Introduction: Finding the First Industrial Woman1: Habits of Industry: Laboring Women and the Poor in surh-Century England2: Economies of Survival: Laboring Women and Agricultural Change, 1750 - 18003: The Art of Women and the Business of Men: Women's work and the Dairy Industry4: The Quarrel with Women's Work: Spinning and Displacement of Female Labor5: A New World of Work: Female labor and the Development of the Factory System6: Invisible Breadwinners: Women and the Declining Status of the Cottage Industry7: Women in the age of Malthus: Political Economy and the Feminization of the Female Worker8: Recasting Women in the Workshop of the World: Middle-Class Authority and the Female Poor9: The Other Victorian Women: The Domestic Servant in the Industrial AgeConclusion

This book is to be welcomed as a brave contribution to the study of a complex subject exciting recasting of the process of industrial transformation ... Valenze has produced a wide-ranging exploration of the nature of industrial transformation ... Valenze's impressive clarity of exposition does not disguise the complexity of the issues uncovered and inspected in this challenging book. It is to be hoped that business historians and others inquisitive about the industrial past will give serious consideration to the ideas presented here. Katrina Honeyman, University of Leeds, Business History, July 1996