Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.editor	Burnette, Joyce	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-31T11:48:54Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-10-31T11:48:54Z	-
dc.date.issued	2008	-
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-521-88063-3	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/16211	-
dc.description	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 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 by 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 rather than customary wages and that the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	university press	en_US
dc.subject	Revolution Britain	en_US
dc.title	Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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