Working Out Gender : Perspectives from Labour History (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction; Margaret Walsh; New entry points from USA women’s labour history, Sheila Rowbotham; Gendering work in eighteenth-century towns, Deborah Simonton; Age and gender at the workplace: the historical experiences of young people in Western Europe and North America, Colin Heywood; The making of men: masculinities in interwar Liverpool, Pat Ayers; ’Whoring, drinking sailors’: reflections on masculinity from the labour history of 19th-century British shipping, Valerie Burton; Gendering the stories of socialism: an essay in historical criticism, June Hannam and Karen Hunt; ’Giving them something to do’: how the early ILP appealed to women, Krista Cowman; From the periphery to the centre: changing perspectives on American farm women, Margaret Walsh; Gender and technology: inverting established patterns. The Lancashire cotton weaving industry at the start of the twentieth century, Jutta Schwarzkopf; Equal pay for equal work?: a new look at gender and wages in the Lancashire cotton industry, 1790-1855, Janet Greenlees; Gendering cultures in business and labour history: marriage bars in clerical employment, Robert Bennett; ’Treading the double path’: American women’s strategies for legal careers in the interwar generation, c.1920-1941, Fiona Brown; Index.