Our Work, Our Lives, Our Words: Women’s History and Women’s Work

✍ Scribed by Leonore Davidoff, Belinda Westover (eds.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 203
• Series: Women in Society
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
‘From Queen Victoria to the Jazz Age’: Women’s World in England, 1880–1939....Pages 1-35
‘Making Do’: Domestic Life Among East Anglian Labourers, 1890–1910....Pages 36-53
‘To Fill the Kids’ Tummies’: The Lives and Work of Colchester Tailoresses, 1880–1918....Pages 54-75
‘What About That Lass of Yours Being in the Union?’: Textile Workers and Their Union in Yorkshire, 1888–1922....Pages 76-98
‘Educating Teacher’: Women and Elementary Teaching in London, 1900–1914....Pages 99-123
‘A Cissy Job for Men; a Nice Job for Girls’: Women Shorthand Typists in London, 1900–39....Pages 124-144
‘A Pension to Look Forward to …?’: Women Civil Service Clerks in London, 1925–1939....Pages 145-160
‘The Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun’: The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, 1914–18....Pages 161-181
Back Matter....Pages 182-189

✦ Subjects

Labor Economics