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dc.contributor.authorBurnette, Joyce-
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-19T06:58:43Z-
dc.date.available2018-11-19T06:58:43Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-511-39350-1-
dc.identifier.urihttp://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/22587-
dc.descriptionA 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, occupationalsegregationmaximizedbotheconomicefficiencyandfemale 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.languageenen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.subjectGender, Worken_US
dc.titleGender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britainen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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