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Double Lives - A History of Working Motherhood (Hardcover)
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Double Lives - A History of Working Motherhood (Hardcover)
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A groundbreaking history of mothers who worked for pay that will
change the way we think about gender, work and equality in modern
Britain. In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in
employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's
lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in
the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst
their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. In Double
Lives, Helen McCarthy accounts for this remarkable transformation,
whose consequences have been momentous for Britain's society and
economy. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, McCarthy ranges from the
smoking chimney-stacks of nineteenth-century Manchester to the
shimmering skyscrapers of present-day Canary Wharf. She recovers
the everyday worlds of working mothers and traces how women's
desires for financial independence and lives beyond home and family
were slowly recognised. McCarthy reveals the deep and complicated
past of a phenomenon so often assumed to be a product of
contemporary lifestyles and aspirations. This groundbreaking
history forces us not only to re-evaluate the past, but to ask anew
how current attitudes towards mothers in the workplace have
developed and how far we have to go. Through vivid and powerful
storytelling, Double Lives offers a social and cultural history for
our times.
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