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In the massive reorganization of lives and livelihoods that accompanied industrial capitalism in England, gender was a pivotal force. Through her analysis of industries ranging from metalworking and lacemaking to the manufacture of chocolate, Sonya Rose highlights the ways in which gender distinctions and gender relations influenced the development of capitalism.
Price: $33.95
Pages: 320
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture
Publication Date:
23 August 1993
ISBN: 9780520074798
Format: Paperback
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. "Maintaining the Industrial Supremacy of the Country": Industrialists and Gendered Work
3· "We Never Sought Protection for the Men Nor Do We Now": The State and Public Policy
4· "To Do the Best You Can": Women's Work and Homework
5· "Mary Had a Little Loom": Gender Segregation, Struggles over the Labor Process, and Class Antagonism in the English Carpet Industry
6. "Manliness, Virtue, and Self-Respect": Gender Antagonism and Working-Class Respectability
7· "Brothers and Sisters in Distress": The Cotton Textile Weavers of Lancashire
8. Conclusions and Afterthoughts
Notes
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Index
1. Introduction
2. "Maintaining the Industrial Supremacy of the Country": Industrialists and Gendered Work
3· "We Never Sought Protection for the Men Nor Do We Now": The State and Public Policy
4· "To Do the Best You Can": Women's Work and Homework
5· "Mary Had a Little Loom": Gender Segregation, Struggles over the Labor Process, and Class Antagonism in the English Carpet Industry
6. "Manliness, Virtue, and Self-Respect": Gender Antagonism and Working-Class Respectability
7· "Brothers and Sisters in Distress": The Cotton Textile Weavers of Lancashire
8. Conclusions and Afterthoughts
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index