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Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain (Paperback)
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Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
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A major 2008 study of the role of women in the labour market of
Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women
usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned
lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to
custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender
differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by
market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women
competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male
workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the
gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive
occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made
women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised
both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's
wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender
wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.
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