Research Catalog

Title

Not only the 'dangerous trades' : women's work and health in Britain, 1880-1914 / Barbara Harrison.

Author

Harrison, Barbara, 1944-

Publication

London : Taylor & Francis, 1996.

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Details

Description

xiii, 283 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Feminist perspectives on the past and present

Uniform Title

Feminist perspectives on the past and present.

Subject

• Industrial hygiene > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Industrial hygiene > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Occupational Diseases
• Occupational Health
• Occupational Health
• United Kingdom
• Women > History > Great Britain > 19th century
• Women > History > Great Britain > 20th century
• Women's Health
• Women, Working

Genre/Form

• History.
• Legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Setting the Scene -- pt. I. The Problem. Ch. 1. Suffer the Working Day: Women's Work and Endangered Health. Ch. 2. The 'Dangerous Trades'. Ch. 3. Work, Maternity and Domestic Labours. Ch. 4. Out of the Factory: Health and Work in Non-industrial Occupations -- pt. II. Responses. Ch. 5. State Intervention: 'Protective' Legislation and Women's Health. Ch. 6. Medical Men and Women's Occupational Ill-health. Ch. 7. 'Missionaries of the State': Women Factory Inspectors and Women at Work. Ch. 8. Women, Feminism and the Politics of 'Protective' Legislation. Ch. 9. A Concluding Discussion: Toward a Feminist Analysis of the State, Women's Paid Work and Occupational Ill-health -- App. Chronology of Women's Inspectorate Personnel 1893-1921.

ISBN

• 074840144X (cased)
• 0748401458 (pbk) :

LCCN

^^^97129837^

OCLC

36341729

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library