Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England - by Nicola Verdon (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue.
- Author(s): Nicola Verdon
- 240 Pages
- Social Science, Women's Studies
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The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time.Book Synopsis
Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants, as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from across England. The roles village women performed in the informal rural economy (household labour, gathering resources and exploiting systems of barter and exchange) are also assessed. Changes in women's economic opportunities are explored, alongside the implications of region, age, marital status, number of children in the family and local custom; women's economic contribution to the rural labouring household is established as a critical part of family subsistence, despite criticism of such work and the rise in male wages after 1850. NICOLA VERDON is a Research Fellow in the Rural History Centre, University of Reading.Review Quotes
A fine book that deserves wide readership.-- "AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW"
A timely, regionally-sensitive, 360-degree picture of rural women's lives.-- "REVIEWS IN HISTORY"
Clear and accessible to a general readership, not just specialists.-- "ALBION"
Makes a considerable contribution to our knowledge of its subject.-- "ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW"
Will now be the standard work on nineteenth-century rural women's labour in England.-- "ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW"
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.9 Inches (W) x .99 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 240
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Women's Studies
Publisher: Boydell Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Nicola Verdon
Language: English
Street Date: October 31, 2002
TCIN: 1005238306
UPC: 9780851159065
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-8313
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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