Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850

By Pamela Sharpe

Book Overview

This book considers patterns of women's employment in the period 1700-1850. Focusing on the county of Essex, material on the worsted industry, agriculture, fashion trades, service, prostitution, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333633911
• ISBN13: 9780333633915
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"