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 occupa

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 occupa

The work of women is recognised as having been fundamental to the industrialization of Britain. These studies explore how that work was remunerated, in studies

This text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.

"I am not living upon my friends or doing housework for my board but am a factory girl," asserted Anna Mason in the early 1850s. Although many young women who w