Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Introduction Rural women workers: the forgotten labour force
- 1 Women, work and wages in historical perspective
- 2 Differing views of rural women's work in documentary material: an overview of printed sources
- 3 Women in the agricultural labour market: female farm servants
- 4 Women in the agricultural labour market: female day labourers
- 5 Alternative employment opportunities: domestic industries
- 6 Survival strategies: women, work and the informal economy
- Conclusion Assessing women's work
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Introduction Rural women workers: the forgotten labour force
- 1 Women, work and wages in historical perspective
- 2 Differing views of rural women's work in documentary material: an overview of printed sources
- 3 Women in the agricultural labour market: female farm servants
- 4 Women in the agricultural labour market: female day labourers
- 5 Alternative employment opportunities: domestic industries
- 6 Survival strategies: women, work and the informal economy
- Conclusion Assessing women's work
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century EnglandGender, Work and Wages, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2002