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Demons of domesticity : women and the English gas industry, 1889-1939 / Anne Clendinning.
- Title
- Demons of domesticity : women and the English gas industry, 1889-1939 / Anne Clendinning.
- Author
- Clendinning, Anne, 1957-
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.
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- Description
- xvii, 352 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Demons of Domesticity offers a social history of the English gas industry from the 1880s to the late 1930s, with an emphasis on the corporations that served London and the Home Counties. It documents the hitherto unexamined role that women played in the development of the industry by considering two major interlocking themes: the expansion of sales occupations for women in the English gas industry, and the parallel growth and diversification of the industry's marketing strategies."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Modern economic and social history series
- Uniform Title
- Modern economic and social history series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-338) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. The Victorian kitchen revolutionised -- 2. Exhibitions and the spectacle of selling -- 3. Lady demons and 'well-dressed men' : gender and sales in the Edwardian gas industry -- 4. 'Keep the gas fires burning!' : war and reconstruction -- 5. Marketing modernity : gas versus electricity between the wars -- 6. 'A women's industry' : demonstrations of difference and equality.
- ISBN
- 0754606929 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002038375
- OCLC
- 50961043
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library