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By the Sweat of Their Brow - Women workers at Victorian Coal Mines (Paperback)
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By the Sweat of Their Brow - Women workers at Victorian Coal Mines (Paperback)
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The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs
above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about
women's work in the nineteenth century. Seen as the prime example
of degraded womanhood, the pit brow woman was regarded as an
aberration in a masculine domain, cruelly torn from her 'natural
sphere', the home. The, attempt to restrict women's work at the
mines in the 1880s highlights the dichotomy between the fashionable
ideal of womanhood and the necessity and reality of female manual
labour. Although only a tiny percentage of the colliery labour
force, the pit lasses aroused an interest out of all proportion to
their numbers and their work became a test case for women's outdoor
manual employment. Angela John discusses the implications of this
debate, showing how it encapsulates many of the ambivalences of
late Victorian attitudes towards working-class female employment,
and at the same time raises wider questions both about women's work
in industries seen as traditionally male enclaves, and about the
ways in which women within the working community have been
presented by historians.This book was first published in 1980.
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