The First Industrial Woman
by Deborah Valenze
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- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 0195089820
- ISBN 13
- 9780195089820
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NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 251 pages, light shelf wear. Clean. Why study women and the industrial revolution? Deborah Valenze's groundbreaking reassessment of this classic problem in European history reminds us that questions of gender and work are at the center of our experience in the modern world. Too often, the study of industrialization charts an inevitable and largely technological course. Valenze sets aside this approach in order to examine the underlying assumptions about gender and work that informed the transformation of English society, and in turn, our ideas about economic progress. How did England change from an agriculturally based nation, in which female labor played an active and acknowledged part, to an industrial power resting on a notion of male productivity? Through selective treatments of agriculture, spinning, and cottage industries, Valenze shows how the rise of values of productivity and rationality subordinated women of the working class and strengthened an emerging ethos of individualism. Record # 385127
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 385127
- Title
- The First Industrial Woman
- Author
- Deborah Valenze
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0195089820
- ISBN 13
- 9780195089820
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- History, Economics, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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