A History of European Women's Work - 1700 to the Present (Hardcover, New)

In A History of European Women's Work, Deborah Simonton takes an overview of trends in women's work across Europe and including Russia, Britain, Germany and France, from the pre-industrial period to the present.
Focusing on the role of gender and class as it defines women's labour, this book examines:
* a wide range of occupations such as teaching and farming
* contrasting rates of change in different European countries
* the definition of work within and outside patriarchal families
* local versus Europe-wide developments
* demographic and economic changes.

eBook available with sample pages: 020300700X