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Author : Ivy Pinchbeck
Release : 2013-10-08
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 904/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution by : Ivy Pinchbeck
Download or read book Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution written by Ivy Pinchbeck. This book was released on 2013-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Susan Horton
Release : 2002-09-26
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 886/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women and Industrialization in Asia by : Susan Horton
Download or read book Women and Industrialization in Asia written by Susan Horton. This book was released on 2002-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that the female work force has played a large part in the Asian `export miracle.' Yet their role has commonly been depicted as confined to sweat shops and tea houses. This book examines the bigger picture regarding women in the labour market and how this has been changing in the course of development and industrialisation. Drawing on labour force survey data from across the continent, the book includes studies on India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Written in an accessible style and with the key issues amply supported by up-to-date quantitative data, Women and Industrialisation in Asia produces some surprising results and dispels some common myths regarding the position of female workers in the region.
Author : Joyce Burnette
Release : 2008-04-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 582/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain by : Joyce Burnette
Download or read book Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain written by Joyce Burnette. This book was released on 2008-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Ben Hubbard
Release : 2015
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 631/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution by : Ben Hubbard
Download or read book Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution written by Ben Hubbard. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role women played during the industrial revolution by relating the stories of Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale, Sarah G. Bagley and Mother Jones.
Author : Katrina Honeyman
Release : 2000-07-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England 1700-1870 by : Katrina Honeyman
Download or read book Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England 1700-1870 written by Katrina Honeyman. This book was released on 2000-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have played an important role in the labor force for hundreds of years, yet it is often assumed that their work was marginal and subsidiary to the more important tasks performed by men. This book explores the ways in which men and women came to operate within two distinct labor markets during the period known as the industrial revolution and explains why industrial capitalism came to depend on a gendered hierarchy of workers. Drawing on twenty years of feminist scholarship it suggests that women workers not only contributed to the wealth of the English economy but through that contribution influenced the direction and progress of the nation's manufacturing industry. This portrayal of women as central and proactive lies in stark contrast to the definition of women workers as cheap, malleable, poorly skilled, and expendable labor that typifies historical account. This book explains the processes by which male workers undermined the value of women in the interests of their own status both at work and at home. It examines the processes by which work became gendered, the mechanisms by which gender hierarchies became established or recreated both at work and at home, the forces underlying the creation of apparently more hostile relationships between them and women during industrialization and she attempts to explain the failure of men and women to unite in order to resist exploitation by employers. Above all it emphasizes the emergence of industrial society in the 19th century as one which was centrally defined by gender.
