Introduction
1860-1914: 'Stay at home and look after your husband'
The Inter-War Years: The Contrasting Roles of Mining Women
A Household Economy in the Modern Era
The Inshore Fishing Community: 'A Race Apart'?
'Muscular Femininity'
'Clever hands' - Household, Demographics and Autonomy
Conclusion
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VALERIE HALL is Professor Emerita of History at William Peace University, North Carolina
It contains important material for the understanding of three key
industries in Northumberland and the women who belonged in
them.
*THE LOCAL HISTORIAN*
A strong contribution to the historiography of working-class
women's work and lives in this period, and will be important
reading for scholars and students alike.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*
Hall has undertaken a very difficult task in addressing three very
different communities, and the book provides us with an interesting
insight into working women's lives because of that approach.
ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW This is a very thoroughly researched book,
very readable, and a valuable contribution to the growing
understanding of working-class women's work and lives. The study of
men's work has long dominated labour history. Eventually, as the
missing pieces of the jigsaw are found, it will be possible to see
a complete picture of working-class women's lives, with both the
similarities and differences made plain. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF
SOCIAL HISTORY The author has presented a vivid picture of
divergence between the experiences of women in the three
communities and shows how they challenged the notion of separate
spheres in different ways. SOCIAL HISTORY Women emerge from this
account as active agents, although their economic, social, and
political identities differed across the region. ... [The book is]
based upon a wide range of printed and archival evidence, that
allows the author to carefully assess the continuities and changes,
and the similarities and differences in women's experiences in the
north-east.
*LABOUR HISTORY REVIEW*
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