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Working women do not experience a rigid division between their work and their family; between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ parts of their lives. Most of the contributors to this volume, for example, discuss how the family influenced the choice of employment of a young woman starting work in the early years of this century and how her experience of that work and levels of pay were structured around her expectation of domestic responsibilities.
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Anna Davin, ‘“Mind that you do as you are told”: Reading Books for Board School Girls’, Feminist Review, 3, 1979, p. 20.
Pat Thane, ‘Women and the Poor Law’, History Workshop Journal, 6, Autumn 1978, p. 33.
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Jane Lewis, The Politics of Motherhood: Child and Maternal Welfare in England, 1900–1939, 1980.
They carried out many surveys to show the needs and conditions of working class people. An influential best seller was: Maude Pember Reeves, Round About a Pound a Week (1913) 1985.
See also: Florence Bell, At the Works: A Study of a Manufacturing Town (1913) 198.
Eleanor Rathbone, Family Allowances, 1949.
Ellen Mappen, Helping Women at Work: the Women’s Industrial Council 1889–1914, 1985.
Martha Vicinus, Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women: 1850–1920, 1985.
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Lee Holcombe, Victorian Ladies at Work: Middle Class Working Women in England and Wales 1850–1914, 1973.
Jane Lewis, Women in England 1870–1950: Sexual Divisions and Social Change, 1984, p. 166.
Barbara Drake, Women in Trade Unions, (1921) 1984.
Pam Taylor, ‘Daughters and Mothers — Maids and Mistresses: Domestic Service Between the Wars in John Clarke, Chas Critcher and Richard Johnson, eds, Working Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory, 1980.
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Leonore Davidoff ‘Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and Edwardian England’, in Journal of Social History, Summer 1974; P. Thane and A. Sutcliffe, eds, Essays in Social History, vol. 2, 1986.
Gail Braybon, ‘The Need for Women’s Labour in the First World War’, in L. Whitlegg et al. The Changing Experiences of Women, 1982.
Shelia R. Johansson, ‘Sex and Death in Victorian England: An Examination of Age-and-Sex Specific Death Rates, 1840–1910’, Martha Vicinus, ed., A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women, 1980.
Margaret Llewelwyn-Davies, ed., Maternity. Letters from workingwomen collected by the Women’s Co-operative Guild, (1915), 1978.
Margery Spring-Rice, Working Class Wives, (1939), 1981. 26.
Angus Calder, The People’s War: Britain 1939–1945, 1969.
Elizabeth Wilson, Only Half-Way to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain 1945–1968, 1980.
Ann Oakley, Subject Women, 1982, p. 133.
Anna Coote and Beatrix Campbell, Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women’s Liberation, 1982, p. 69.
Jackie West, ed., Work, Women and the Labour Market, 1982, p.3.
Liz Heron, ed., Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties, 1983.
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Davidoff, L., Westover, B. (1986). ‘From Queen Victoria to the Jazz Age’: Women’s World in England, 1880–1939. In: Davidoff, L., Westover, B. (eds) Our Work, Our Lives, Our Words. Women in Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18376-0_1
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