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Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913

The Cotton and Metal Industries in England

By Carol E. Morgan

Published September 6th 2001 by Routledge – 240 pages

Series: Women's and Gender History

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    Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835 - 1913 examines the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour. It demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh realities of working-class life that forced women into such unfeminine trades as chain-making and brass polishing. Thus discourses constructing women as wives and mothers, or associating women's work with distinctly feminine attributes, were often undercut and subverted.

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    'Morgan is to be congratulated on producing such a coherent and sophisticated analysis from the daunting array of data and theoretical perspectives on offer. The lucid presentation disguises an immensely complicated narrative, and the brevity if the text belies an impressive breadth and depth of knowledge.' - Katrina Honeyman, Northern History, September 2002

    Name: Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913: The Cotton and Metal Industries in England (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: By Carol E. Morgan. Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835 - 1913 examines the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour. It demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh...
    Categories: British History, Modern History 1750-1945, Women's & Gender History