Workplace appropriation and the gendering of factory “law”: West Yorkshire, 1840–80
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Workplace appropriation and the gendering of factory “law”: West Yorkshire, 1840–80
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Taking our Mills, generally . . . a female who has no value for reputation or character, is already a lost woman. So precious, is the preservation of female purity, that a single error herein is a blemish for life.

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