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1.
Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary?
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 1994
Subjects:
Industrial Revolution
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...the marriage register show that women had lower levels of literacy than...information indicates that English women, particularly those born in rural...the poor growth experience of industrial revolution women depended, in part, on birthplace...
2.
The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective
Contributors:
Publisher:
Westview Press 1999 (2nd edition)
Subjects:
Industrial Revolution--Great Britain
Great Britain--Economic Conditions--1760-1860
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...been raised in the historiography of women'sexperience during the Industrial Revolution is whether women's factory work,especially during...This issue surfaced in contemporary industrial fiction. Thus, ElizabethGaskell U...
3.
The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 1992
Subjects:
Industrial Revolution--Europe
Europe--Economic Conditions--19th Century
Working Class--Europe--History--19th Century
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...question of how women lived the great...that studies of the Industrial Revolution totally ignore women workers. Textbooks...quest to learn how women experienced the...questions whether the Industrial Revolution is a key to understanding...
4.
The Industrial Revolution in World History
Contributors:
Publisher:
Westview Press 1998 (2nd edition)
Subjects:
Economic History
Industrial Revolution
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...Impact ofthe Industrial RevolutionThe industrial revolution was an intensely human experience. Its...varied somewhat with each region's industrial revolution. The ex­periences of women in France, for example, differed somewhat...
5.
The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1997
Subjects:
Industrial Revolution--Great Britain
Great Britain--Economic Conditions--1760-1860
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...Ashton, Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution (1924); T...Mills. The classic text on women also pre-dates Ashton: I. Pinchbeck,Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution (1930).More...
6.
Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution
Contributors:
Publisher:
Westview Press 1999
Subjects:
Children--Employment--Great Britain--History--19th Century
Labor Economics--Great Britain--History--19th Century
Industrial Revolution--Great Britain
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...1930. Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1800...Elizabeth. 1988. Women's Work 1840...Social Change and the Industrial Revolution, in R. Floud and...Proto-Industry, Women's Work and the...
7.
Understanding the Industrial Revolution
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 2000
Subjects:
Industrial Revolution--Great Britain
Industrial Revolution
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...savings were diverted from industrial investment because of...much less impact on industrial investment from changing...savings for the British Industrial Revolution although neglected in...men, tradesmen, and women - subscribed 29 per...
8.
The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy: Selected Essays
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 1993
Subjects:
Great Britain--Economic Conditions--1760-1860
Industrial Revolution--Great Britain
Energy Development--Great Britain--History--18th Century
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...was saddened by the fact that many Welsh people, particularly women and teenage girls, were ashamed to acknowledge that they could...province of Quebec. The Scottish capitalists who developed a large industrial and financial sector
9.
Women, Equality, and the French Revolution
Contributors:
Publisher:
Greenwood Press 1990
Subjects:
Women--France--History--18th Century
Equality--France--History--18th Century
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Women
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...worked to support themselves. Women were therefore a vital,contributing...were or were not open to these women.The industrial revolution, which was to bring with it a diversity of jobsfor women in factories, retail outlets...
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