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Young Women, Work, and Family in England 1918-1950 (Hardcover, New)
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Young Women, Work, and Family in England 1918-1950 (Hardcover, New)
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This fascinating account of young women's lives challenges existing
assumptions about working class life and womanhood in England
between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the
1950s. While contemporaries commonly portrayed young women as
pleasure-loving leisure consumers, this book argues that the world
of work was in fact central to their life experiences. Social and
economic history are woven together to examine the working, family,
and social lives of the maids, factory workers, shop assistants,
and clerks who made up the majority of England's young women.
Selina Todd traces the complex interaction between class, gender,
and locale that shaped young women's roles at work and home,
indicating that paid work structured people's lives more profoundly
than many social histories suggest. Rich autobiographical accounts
show that, while poverty continued to constrain life choices, young
women also made their own history. Far from being apathetic workers
or pliant consumers, they forged new patterns of occupational and
social mobility, were important breadwinners in working class
homes, developed a distinct youth culture, and acted as workplace
militants. In doing so they helped to shape twentieth-century
society.
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