Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England (Women's and Gender History)
By Bridget Hill.
Description
The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and technological change.; This study focuses on the household, the most important unit of production in the 18th century. Hill examines the work done by the women of the household, not only in "housework" but also in agriculture and manufacturing, and explains what women lost as the household's independence as a unit of economic production was undermined.; Considering the whole range of activities in which w...
ISBN(s)
1857282132, 9781857282139
