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Conversations in Cold Rooms
Author:  Jane Long
Published:  1999
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

In what ways did gender influence the shape of poverty, and of poor women's work, in Victorian England? This book explores the issue in the context of nineteenth-century Northumberland, examining urban and rural conditions for women, poor relief debates and practices, philanthropic activity, working-class cultures, and `protective' intervention in women's employment.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93240-5

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Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England
Author:  Nicola Verdon
Published:  2002
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15906-5

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The Education and Employment of Girls in Luton, 1874-1924
Author:  Anne Allsopp
Published:  2005
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This book examines the education of Luton girls and its relationship with employment opportunities, concentrating on, but not exclusively confined to, the working-classes. The acknowledged independence of spirit to be found in Luton was especially noticeable among its female population, which enjoyed considerable economic power within the traditional hat-making industry.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-55070-1

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Women in Business, 1700-1850
Author:  Nicola Phillips
Published:  2006
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Orthodox opinion is that in the `long' eighteenth century women, especially of the middle classes, had very little involvement with business affairs and enterprises, and that as a group they were more usually characterised by their domestic roles. This book takes issue with this view, arguing that the major factors which supposedly prevented women's economic activity in this period had much less impact than has previously been thought.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83183-9

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Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880-1914
Author:  Carolyn Malone
Published:  2003
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Between 1880 and 1914, there was a widespread public debate about the threat of women's work to their bodies, reproductive abilities and the future of the race. Stimulated by a series of sensational stories in the new journalistic press, this debate included politicians, doctors, working men and diverse feminist organisations. In response, the government enacted special legislative measures, known as dangerous trades regulations, to protect women and their unborn children in the white lead and pottery trades.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93264-1

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Women, Work and Wages in England, 1600-1850
Author:  Penelope Lane
Published:  2004
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Women's work is recognised as fundamental to the industrialization of Britain in many fields. How it was rewarded is the subject of these studies, ranging over time, region, and occupation. Topics discussed here include children under the parish apprenticeship system, women's work for poor law authorities and how it was taken into account by welfare systems, the changing nature of women's work, remuneration and technology in British agriculture, questions of customary norms governing pay, female employment in many hitherto neglected urban industries, and women and the East India Company.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83077-1

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