Not Only The Dangerous Trades: Women's Work And Health In Britain 1880-1914

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ISBN: 9780748401444 | 074840144X
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Copyright: 2/1/1997

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Focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women, this book examines the relationships between gender, work and illness from 1880 to 1914. It looks at the part played by feminist activists in debates about health and industrial work and shows how they went beyond the concerns of suffrage.

List of Tables, Figures and Appendix

(1)

List of Abbreviations

(1)

Acknowledgments

xii

Introduction: Setting the Scene

(18)

Beginnings

(1)

Intentions

(3)

Women Workers in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-century Britain

(5)

The Labour Market and Sexual Divisions

(2)

Occupational Health and Industrial Disease

(7)

Part I: The Problem

(118)

Chapter 1 Suffer the Working Day: Women's Work and Endangered Health

(30)

Barely Enough to Survive: Wages

(6)

All of the Day and All of the Night: Hours of Work

(8)

A Matter of Decency: Sanitary Conditions and Provision

(4)

Hot and Cold and Fresh Air

(4)

The Oppressive Power of Men at Work

(8)

Chapter 2 The `Dangerous Trades'

(29)

Conceptualizing `Danger'

(4)

Women in `Danger'

(1)

`Dangers at Work'

(4)

`White Cemeteries'

(6)

`Match-girls': The Other Story

(5)

Regulating Danger: The Reality

(9)

Chapter 3 Work, Maternity and Domestic Labours

(26)

Maternal Health and Infant Mortality

(8)

Lead and Reproductive Damage

(4)

`Sweated` Work and the Home as a Place of Paid Work

(14)

Chapter 4 Out of the Factory: Health and Work in Non-industrial Occupations

106

(31)

Domestic Service

106

(5)

Serving Others in the Public Domain: Shop Assistants, Barmaids and Waitresses

111

(4)

Into the Office: Clerks and Typists

115

(4)

Professional Work

119

(18)

Teaching

120

(4)

Nursing

124

(4)

Women factory inspectors

128

(9)

Part II: Responses

137

(111)

Chapter 5 State Intervention: `Protective' Legislation and Women's Health

139

(24)

State and Society 1880-1914

140

(3)

The State and `Protective' Factory Legislation: Precedents

143

(3)

State Intervention and Women's Work: The Response from 1880

146

(1)

Capital, Labour and the State: Employers

147

(5)

Occupational Ill-health: The Failure of State Intervention

152

(3)

Women, Men and the State

155

(8)

Chapter 6 Medical Men and Women's Occupational Ill-health

163

(18)

Early Debates

164

(2)

In the Service of the State

166

(4)

The Medical Construction of Knowledge of Women's Occupational Ill-health

170

(3)

Doctors and Industry

173

(2)

Medical Surveillance: Success or Failure?

175

(6)

Chapter 7 `Missionaries of the State': Women Factory Inspectors and Women at Work

181

(19)

Mounting the Campaign

181

(3)

Eventual Success

184

(2)

Becoming a Woman Factory Inspector

186

(2)

Working Days and Working Nights

188

(2)

Perspectives on Women's Occupational Health

190

(2)

Gender Divisions in the Service of the State

192

(8)

Chapter 8 Women, Feminism and the Politics of `Protective' Legislation

200

(23)

Lining up on `Protective' Legislation

201

(3)

Division and Dissent

204

(4)

Feminism, Work and the `Protection' of Health

208

(5)

Women, Trade Unionism and Working Conditions

213

(2)

Working Women, Legislation and Health

215

(8)

Chapter 9 A Concluding Discussion: Toward a Feminist Analysis of the State, Women's Paid Work and Occupational Ill-health

223

(25)

Preventing Occupational Ill-health: A Failed Approach?

224

(5)

`Protective' Legislation: Intentions and Consequences

229

(3)

Capitalism and Patriarchy: Men's Interests and the Subordination of Women

232

(5)

The State: Toward a Feminist Analysis

237

(2)

Feminist Politics and Women's Resistance

239

(3)

Talking about Women

242

(6)

Appendix Chronology of Women's Inspectorate Personnel 1893-1921

248

(4)

Bibliography

252

(21)

Index

273

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Not Only The Dangerous Trades: Women's Work And Health In Britain 1880-1914

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