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