The range of women's work and its contribution to the family
economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of
women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years,
the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century
English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon
directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the
rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The
involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants,
as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all
examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from
across England. The roles village women performed in the informal
rural economy (household labour, gathering resources and exploiting
systems of barterand exchange) are also assessed. Changes in
women's economic opportunities are explored, alongside the
implications of region, age, marital status, number of children in
the family and local custom; women's economic contribution to the
rural labouring household is established as a critical part of
family subsistence, despite criticism of such work and the rise in
male wages after 1850. NICOLA VERDON is a Research Fellow in the
Rural History Centre, University of Reading.
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