ABSTRACT

Women, Work and Family is a classic of women's history and is still the only text on the history of women's work in England and France, providing an excellent introduction to the changing status of women from 1750 to the present.

chapter |2 pages

Contents

chapter |9 pages

Introduction to the New Edition

part |1 pages

Part I. The Family Economy in Pre-Industrial England and France

chapter 1|20 pages

Economy and Demography

chapter 2|12 pages

Single Women in the Family Economy

chapter 3|18 pages

Married Women in the Family Economy

part |2 pages

Part II. Industrialization and the Family Wage Economy

chapter 4|26 pages

Industrialization

chapter 5|15 pages

Demographic Change

chapter 6|43 pages

Women in the Family Wage Economy

part |2 pages

Part III. Toward the Family Consumer Economy

chapter 7|27 pages

Occupational and Demographic Change

chapter 8|38 pages

Women in the Family Consumer Economy

chapter 9|13 pages

Changes in Women's Work Since World War II