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The World is ill divided : womenʼs work in Scotland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Author: Eleanor Gordon; Esther Breitenbach
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New York : Distributed in North America by Columbia University Press, ©1990.
Series: Edinburgh education and society series.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Local government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This is the history of women's waged work during the 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at eight different areas ranging from the Borders to the North-East of Scotland and jobs such as  Read more...

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Genre/Form: History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
World is ill divided.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New York : Distributed in North America by Columbia University Press, ©1990
(OCoLC)551329670
Material Type: Government publication, Local government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Eleanor Gordon; Esther Breitenbach
ISBN: 0748601163 9780748601165 0748602127 9780748602124
OCLC Number: 23972965
Description: viii, 186 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: The view from the workplace : women's memories of work in Stirling c. 1910-c. 1950 / Jayne D. Stephenson and Callum G. Brown --
The wages of sin : women, work and sexuality in the nineteenth century / Linda Mahood --
Women in the printing and paper trades in Edwardian Scotland / Siân Reynolds --
Early Glasgow women medical graduates / Wendy Alexander --
'Ye never got a spell to think about it' : young women and employment in the inter-war period : a case study of a textile village / James J. Smyth --
In bondage : the female farm worker in south-east Scotland / Barbara W. Robertson --
Rural and urban women in domestic service / Lynn Jamieson --
Fit work for women : sweated home-workers in Glasgow c. 1875-1914 / Alice J. Albert.
Series Title: Edinburgh education and society series.
Responsibility: edited by Eleanor Gordon and Esther Breitenbach.

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