The First Industrial Woman de Valenze, Deborah

Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1995. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Oxford University Press, 1995-03-30. 1. paperback. Used: Good.

Oxford University Press. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Oxford University Press. A clean, unmarked copy with a heavily bumped top corner (both covers and text block have a small bend). Otherwise minor wear. Spine uncreased. "Charts the birth of a new economic order resting on social and sexual hierarchies which remain a part of our contemporary lives." Size: 6 x 9 . Good. Paperback. 1995.

Oxford University Press. Near Fine. 1995. First Edition. Paperback. 0195089820 . Clean and pristine, with a stamping at the front, but no markings or signs of use in the text. This examination of devolution of women in England as the country transitioned from an agricultural to an industrial base looks like an interesting read! Fast shipping world wide, with tracking number provided. ; 9.22 X 6.12 X 0.73 inches; 272 pages .

Oxford University Press USA, 1995. Paperback. Used: Acceptable. Condition fair, cover faded and creased, some pages wavey but all readableThis is the first full examination of women and industrialization since Ivy Pinchbeck's Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution. Valenze's book is a wide-ranging analytical synthesis, which is based on original research as well.

Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 251 pages, light shelf wear. Clean. Why study women and the industrial revolution? Deborah Valenze's groundbreaking reassessment of this classic problem in European history reminds us that questions of gender and work are at the center of our experience in the modern world. Too often, the study of industrialization charts an inevitable and largely technological course. Valenze sets aside this approach in order to examine the underlying assumptions about gender and work that informed the transformation of English society, and in turn, our ideas about economic progress. How did England change from an agriculturally based nation, in which female labor played an active and acknowledged part, to an industrial power resting on a notion of male productivity? Through selective treatments of agriculture, spinning, and cottage industries, Valenze shows how the rise of values of productivity and rationality subordinated women of the… Leer más