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After the Second World War many women were forced out of their war-time employment but the economic difficulties of the 1950s produced a scarcity of labour in specific areas of the economy and between 1951 and 1971 the labour force rose by 1.5 million to nearly 25 million. All but 69 000 of this increase was due to the employment of women.1 The changes are illustrated in Table 9.1.2
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© 1989 Shelley Pennington and Belinda Westover
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Pennington, S., Westover, B. (1989). Homework, 1945–1985. In: A Hidden Workforce. Women in Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19854-2_9
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