Women's Work in Industrial England Regional

This collection presents 15 essays detailing the employment of women during a crucial period in English history. Including both a general discussion and detailed case studies, and incorporating important new research, this guide to women's involvement in Industrial Age agriculture, centralized and cottage industry, domestic service, business, and alternative medicine also addresses the impact of marital status as well as some key methodological debates.

Nigel Goose is professor of social and economic history and director of the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the author of Volumes 1 and 2 of Population, Economy and Family Structure in Hertfordshire in 1851 and Tudor and Stuart Colchester.

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Working women in industrial England	p. 1
Diverse experiences : the geography of adult female employment in England and the 1851 census	p. 29
The female labour market in English agriculture during the industrial evolution : expansion or contraction?	p. 51
Hay, hops and harvest : women's work in agriculture in nineteenth-century Sussex	p. 76
The straw plait and hat trades in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire	p. 97
Women as wives and workers in the Staffordshire potteries in the nineteenth century	p. 138
Married women and work in nineteenth-century Lancashire : the evidence of the 1851 and 1861 census reports	p. 164
What can the mid-Victorian censuses tell us about variations in married women's employment?	p. 182
Who worked when? : life-time profiles of labour force participation in Cardington and Corfe Castle in the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries	p. 209
Female healers in nineteenth-century England	p. 228
The tabulation of occupations in the nineteenth-century census, with special reference to domestic servants	p. 250
Mis-specification of servant occupations in the 1851 census : a problem revisited	p. 260
Gender and the rhetoric of business success : the impact on women entrepreneurs and the 'new woman' in later nineteenth century Edinburgh	p. 269
From Hartland to Hartley : marital status and occupation in the late nineteenth century	p. 289
The dawning of a new era? : women's work in England and Wales at the turn of the twentieth century	p. 314
Bibliography	p. 363
Index	p. 391
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