Gender, work and wages in industrial revolution Britain / Joyce Burnette.

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 i...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Burnette, Joyce (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:Cambridge studies in economic history.
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