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A groundbreaking history of mothers who worked for pay that will change the way we think about gender, work and equality in modern Britain. In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. In Double Lives, Helen McCarthy accounts for this remarkable transformation, whose consequences have been momentous for Britain's society and economy. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, McCarthy ranges from the smoking chimney-stacks of nineteenth-century Manchester to the shimmering skyscrapers of present-day Canary Wharf. She recovers the everyday worlds of working mothers and traces how women's desires for financial independence and lives beyond home and family were slowly recognised. McCarthy reveals the deep and complicated past of a phenomenon so often assumed to be a product of contemporary lifestyles and aspirations. This groundbreaking history forces us not only to re-evaluate the past, but to ask anew how current attitudes towards mothers in the workplace have developed and how far we have to go. Through vivid and powerful storytelling, Double Lives offers a social and cultural history for our times. -- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I borrowed this in hardback from the library. It is a detailed study by an academic, with very comprehensive and detailed endnotes (92 pages compared to just under 400 of main text) and a 27 page bibliography but is well written and quite clear and readable. Helen McCarthy draws on a range of sources including newspaper and magazine articles, inspection reports and popular fiction as well as other academic sources. She outlines what is known and statistics gathered about women's patterns of paid employment, from 19th century cotton mills to white collar and professional employment, and also at childcare provision, government, employer. media and social attitudes to mothers going out to work. There are also 16 pages of photographic plates, mostly black and white but with a couple of colour reproductions of a Victorian painting and of a picture/headline of Nicola Horlick, a woman famous for combining a top job in the City of London and bringing up 7 children.
An interesting and thoughtful account, though sometimes depressing - though attitudes have changed recently, reading this left me wondering how much they have really shiffted. ( )