Women's Work in Industrial England: Regional and Local Perspectives

This volume provides a collection of fifteen essays on women's work in industrial England, including general discussions as well as detailed case studies, and incorporating some of the more important new research recently undertaken together with a number of previously published articles that deserve fuller exposure. Prefaced by an overview of the field, it includes chapters on agriculture, centralised industry, cottage industry, domestic service, business, alternative medicine and the impact of marital status, as well as some key methodological debates. The whole volume is underpinned by insistence upon the crucial importance of the adoption of regional and local perspectives in any attempt properly to understand women's work in industrial England.