First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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 occupa

Working Women, Literary Ladies explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labor and into opportunitie

Examines the role women played during the industrial revolution by relating the stories of Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale, Sarah G. Bagley and Mother Jones

Women and rural outwork -- Lowell millhands -- Lynn shoeworkers -- Boston servants and garment workers -- New Hampshire teachers -- Workingwomen in New England,