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Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
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A major new study of the role of women in the labor market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimizing the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximized both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.
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Cambridge University Press; April 2008
391 pages; ISBN 9780511389429
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391 pages; ISBN 9780511389429
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Subject categories
- Academic > Economics > Industries. Land use. Labor > Labor. Work. Working class > Classes of labor
- Academic > Economics > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial management > Risk in industry. Risk management
- History > Military > World War I
- Political Science > Labor & Industrial Relations
- Social Science > Sociology
- Social Science > Gender Studies
- Social Science > Women's Studies
- History > Modern
- History > Great Britain
ISBNs
0511389426
9780511389429
9780521880633