ABSTRACT
Integrating analytical tools from feminist theory, cultural studies and sociology to illuminate detailed historical evidence, Sonya Rose argues that gender was a central organizing principle of the nineteenth-century industrial transformation in England. She elaborates a cultural theory of gender that suggests why it is an inherent aspect of all social and economic relations. Analysing employer strategies and state policies and the role of work in family life, she demonstrates that neither industrial transformation nor class relations can be understood when reduced to gender-neutral and abstract forces.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |21 pages
Introduction
chapter |28 pages
“Maintaining the Industrial Supremacy of the Country”
Industrialists and Gendered Work
chapter |24 pages
“Mary Had a Little Loom”
Gender Segregation, Struggles over the Labor Process, and Class Antagonism in the English Carpet Industry
chapter |28 pages
“Manliness, Virtue, and Self-Respect”
Gender Antagonism and Working-Class Respectability