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The Exclusion of Women From Industry in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Ellen Jordan
Ellen Jordan
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University of Newcastle
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In 1868, a clergymen told the annual congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science that “he had long lived in the town of Liverpool, and had been placed in circumstances there which made him frequently regret that there were no places in which women could find employment. The great want was of employment for every class of women, not only for the higher class, but for those placed in humbler circumstances.” At earlier conferences, however, a number of speakers described the abundant opportunities for female employment in other Lancashire towns. Census figures make it clear that the reason lay in the different industrial bases of these towns.

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Shaping the Worlds of Labor
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 273 - 296
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1989

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