Gender work wages industrial revolution britain 1st Edition by Joyce Burnette ISBN 0511394918 9780521880633
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ISBN 10: 0511394918
ISBN 13: 9780521880633
Author: Joyce Burnette
A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women’s wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.
Gender work wages industrial revolution britain 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1 – Setting the Stage: Britain Before Industrialization
Gender Roles in Pre-Industrial Society
The Structure of Rural and Urban Work
Household Economies and Informal Labor
Chapter 2 – Industrialization and Labor Transformation
The Rise of Factories and Mechanized Production
Changing Demand for Labor
Gendered Divisions of Work
Chapter 3 – Women and Work in the Industrial Economy
Factory Labor: Textiles, Pottery, and Beyond
Domestic Service and Informal Economies
Women’s Dual Role: Wage Labor and Household Management
Chapter 4 – Men’s Labor and Industrial Masculinities
Skilled vs. Unskilled Work
Male Labor Identity and the Breadwinner Ideal
Trade Unions and Exclusionary Practices
Chapter 5 – Children, Families, and the Labor Force
Child Labor in Mines and Mills
The Family Economy Model
Legislation and Reform Movements
Chapter 6 – Wages, Value, and Inequality
Gender Pay Gaps and Wage Structures
Piecework, Day Wages, and Salary Systems
Economic Theories and the Justification of Inequality
Chapter 7 – Resistance, Protest, and the Politics of Labor
Strikes, Riots, and Factory Acts
Women in Labor Movements
Moral Economy and the Rights of Workers
Chapter 8 – The State, Legislation, and the Regulation of Work
The Factory Acts and Their Gendered Impact
Marriage, Property, and Women’s Legal Status
Education and Work Reform
Chapter 9 – Narratives of Progress and the Cost of Industrial Growth
Who Benefited from Industrialization?
Class, Gender, and Historical Memory
Continuities into the 20th Century
Chapter 10 – Conclusion: Gendered Legacies of the Industrial Revolution
The Long Arc of Gendered Labor History
Implications for Contemporary Work and Wage Debates
Toward an Inclusive Economic History
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