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Husbandry to Housewifery - Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland 1890-1914 (Hardcover)
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Husbandry to Housewifery - Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland 1890-1914 (Hardcover)
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This book examines the lives of Irish women between 1890 and 1914,
tracing the shift of their labour out of the fields and into the
home. Joanna Bourke shows how their position within the employment
market deteriorated: married women came to be increasingly
dependent on their husbands' earnings, while economic opportunities
for unmarried and widowed women collapsed. More and more women
devoted all their productive enterprise to performing housework. In
this thoroughly documented and carefully argued study, Dr Bourke
analyses the crucial elements in this change: the coincidence of
sectoral shifts in the employment market, increasing investment in
the rural economy, and the growth of a labour-intensive household
sector. Controversially, she argues that Irish women welcomed their
altered role, finding housework preferable to many of the other
options available to them.
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