By the Sweat of Their Brow - Women workers at Victorian Coal Mines (Hardcover, New Ed)

The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about womens 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 womens 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 womens 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 womens 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Economic History
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	April 2006
Authors:	Angela V John
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-38009-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Mining industry Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
LSN:	0-415-38009-X
Barcode:	9780415380096

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