Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution

Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution
Author: Ivy Pinchbeck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136936904

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain

Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
Author: Joyce Burnette
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2008-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139470582

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.

The First Industrial Woman

The First Industrial Woman
Author: Deborah M. Valenze
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 251
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780195089813

This is the first full examination of women and industrialization since Ivy Pinchbeck's Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution . Valenze's book is a wide-ranging analytical synthesis, which is based on original research as well.

The Myth Of The Male Breadwinner

The Myth Of The Male Breadwinner
Author: Helen I Safa
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429972385

First Published in 2018. This book examines the debate about the effects of paid employment on women through studies of women industrial workers in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. It focuses on following areas of women's lives: wages and working conditions; the family, life cycle, and household composition.

Women, Gender and Industrialization in England, 1700-1870

Women, Gender and Industrialization in England, 1700-1870
Author: Katrina Honeyman
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-06-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 033369077X

During the 1980s and 1990s, gender issues became central to analyses of historical processes, changing perceptions of industrialization. This study draws on such scholarship to suggest that the contributions of women workers influenced the direction and progress of England's manufacturing industry.

Working Women in Mexico City

Working Women in Mexico City
Author: Susie S. Porter
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2003-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780816522682

The years from the Porfiriato to the post-Revolutionary regimes were a time of rising industrialism in Mexico that dramatically affected the lives of workers. Much of what we know about their experience is based on the histories of male workers; now Susie Porter takes a new look at industrialization in Mexico that focuses on women wage earners across the work force, from factory workers to street vendors. Working Women in Mexico City offers a new look at this transitional era to reveal that industrialization, in some ways more than revolution, brought about changes in the daily lives of Mexican women. Industrialization brought women into new jobs, prompting new public discussion of the moral implications of their work. Drawing on a wealth of material, from petitions of working women to government factory inspection reports, Porter shows how a shifting cultural understanding of working women informed labor relations, social legislation, government institutions, and ultimately the construction of female citizenship. At the beginning of this period, women worked primarily in the female-dominated cigarette and clothing factories, which were thought of as conducive to protecting feminine morality, but by 1930 they worked in a wide variety of industries. Yet material conditions transformed more rapidly than cultural understandings of working women, and although the nation's political climate changed, much about women's experiences as industrial workers and street vendors remained the same. As Porter shows, by the close of this period women's responsibilities and rights of citizenshipÑsuch as the right to work, organize, and participate in public debateÑwere contingent upon class-informed notions of female sexual morality and domesticity. Although much scholarship has treated Mexican women's history, little has focused on this critical phase of industrialization and even less on the circumstances of the tortilleras or market women. By tracing the ways in which material conditions and public discourse about morality affected working women, Porter's work sheds new light on their lives and poses important questions for understanding social stratification in Mexican history.

Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution

Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution
Author: Ben Hubbard
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1484608631

Examines the role women played during the industrial revolution by relating the stories of Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale, Sarah G. Bagley and Mother Jones.

Women Workers and Global Restructuring

Women Workers and Global Restructuring
Author: Kathryn B. Ward
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1990
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780875461625

Since economists traditionally focus on market activities, women's non-wage labour has not been registered in works on economic development. On the other hand, women's wage labour has been described as supplementary or marginal to the household income as well as to economic development as a whole. The contributors to this collection did their research on women workers in countries from the core, the semiperiphery, and the periphery. The eight articles are introduced by Kathryn Ward, who presents a critical overview of the literature on women workers and globalization. In Ward's opinion we have to develop new definitions for some key concepts in our theories on women and work. These concepts should aim at including housework and work in the informal sector, and women's various acts of resistance. Ward also suggests new perspectives from which we should theorize about women's work in the process of global restructuring.

Out to Work

Out to Work
Author: Alice Kessler-Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2003-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 019977045X

First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark book, the author has updated the original and written a new Afterword.