History of Women and Work

History of Women and Work

Theme: History of Women and Work

Abrams, Lynn

"“There Is Many a Thing That Can Be Done with Money”: Women, Barter, and Autonomy in a Scottish Fishing Community in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" (2012)

Bennett, Judith

History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (2006)

Bennett, Judith M

Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 (1996)

Bennett, Judith; Froide, Amy

Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 (1999)

Coffin, Judith G

The Politics of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915 (2014)

Dale, Marian K

"The London Silkwomen of the Fifteenth Century" (1933)

Dalla Costa, Mariarosa; Selma, James

"Women and the Subversion of Community" (1997)

Davis, Angela

"Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves" (1981)

DeGroat, Judith Ann

The working lives of women in the Parisian manufacturing trades, 1830-1848 (1991)

Deverall, Kate; Hobbs, Margaret; Sangster, Joan

"The Woman Worker, 1926-1929" (2002)

Dowd, Michelle M

Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2009)

Erbeznik, Elizabeth

"Workers and Wives as Legible Types in Eugène Sue's" Les Mystères de Paris"" (2013)

Federici, Silvia

Foster, John Bellamy; Clark, Brett

"Monthly Review | Women, Nature, and Capital in the Industrial Revolution" (2018)

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano

"From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor" (1992)

Gutman, Herbert George

The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 (1976)

Hapke, Laura

Tales of the working girl: wage-earning women in American literature, 1890-1925 (1992)

Karanika, Andromache

Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece (2014)

Keough, Willeen

""Good looks don’t boil the pot": Irish-Newfoundland women as fish(-producing) wives" (2012)

Loengard, Janet S

"A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344.Judith M. Bennett" (2000)

Lévesque, Andrée; Hobbs, Margaret; Sangster, Joan

"The Woman Worker, 1926-1929" (2001)

Mitchell, Juliet

"Women: The Longest Revolution" (1966)

Nicholson, Linda J

Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family (1986)

Offen, Karen

Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870–1920 (2018)

Perrot, Michelle

"L'Eloge de la ménagère dans le discours des ouvriers français au XIXe siècle" (1976)

Rivers, Bronwyn

Women at Work in the Victorian Novel: The Question of Middle Class Women's Employment (2005)

Shahar, Shulamith

The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages (2003)

Simon, Jules

"ÉTUDES MORALES. LE SALAIRE ET LE TRAVAIL DES FEMMES: LES FEMMES DANS LA FABRIQUE LYONNAISE" (1860)

Strasser, Ulrike

"Judith Bennett, History Matters. Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism" (2007)

Sutherland, Gillian

In Search of the New Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870–1914 (2015)

Tilburg, Patricia

Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880-1919 (2019)

Vogel, Lise

"Their Own Work: Two Documents from the Nineteenth-Century Labor Movement" (1976)

W Scott, Joan

"L'ouvrière, mot impie, sordide" (1990)

Zakreski, Patricia

Representing female artistic labour, 1848--1890: refining work for the middle-class woman (2016)

Zaretsky, Eli

Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life (1976)

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