Gender Work And Wages In Industrial Revolution Britain
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Gender Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
Author | : Joyce Burnette |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2008-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139470582 |
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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.
Gender Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
Author | : Joyce Burnette |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521312280 |
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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 Industrial Revolution and British Society
Author | : Patrick O'Brien,Roland Quinault |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1993-01-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 052143744X |
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This text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.
Women Work and Wages in England 1600 1850
Author | : Penelope Lane,Neil Raven,K. D. M. Snell |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781843830771 |
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The work of women is recognised as having been fundamental to the industrialization of Britain. These studies explore how that work was remunerated, in studies that range across time, region and occupation. Topics include the changing nature of women's work, customary norms, and women and the East India Company.
Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution
Author | : Jane Humphries |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2010-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139489287 |
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This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Author | : Robert C. Allen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2009-04-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521868273 |
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Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution
Author | : Ivy Pinchbeck |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781136936906 |
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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Industrial Revolution
Author | : Jeff Horn |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9798216102342 |
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Through this book's roughly 50 reference entries, readers will gain a better appreciation of what life during the Industrial Revolution was like and see how the United States and Europe rapidly changed as societies transitioned from an agrarian economy to one based on machines and mass production. The Industrial Revolution remains one of the most transformative events in world history. It forever changed the economic landscape and gave birth to the modern world as we know it. The content and primary documents within The Industrial Revolution: History, Documents, and Key Questions provide key historical background of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States, enable students to gain unique insights into life during the period, and allow readers to perceive the similarities to developments in society today with ongoing advances in current science and technology. Roughly 50 reference entries provide essential information about the most important people and developments related to the Industrial Revolution, including Richard Arkwright, coal, colonialism, cotton, the factory system, pollution, railroads, and the steam engine. Each entry provides information that gives readers a sense of the importance of the topic within a historical and societal perspective. For example, the coverage of movements during the Industrial Revolution explains the origin of each, including when it was established, and by whom; its significance; and the social context in which the movement was formed. Each entry cites works for further reading to help users learn more about specific topics.