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The family and the household in the industrial revolution


The Making of Modern Britain c1750-c1850 (University of Wolverhampton)




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The family and the household in the industrial revolution: Private Lives and Public
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The family and the household in the industrial revolution.


Women and History/historians
 Feminism and history
 Marxism
 Compensatory women’s history
 Radical/Feminist history
 Gender and history
 Impact of postmodernism
Life in pre-industrial Britain
 The household
 Family as an economic unit
 Standard of living
 Structure of existence
 Communities and social norms
Life during the Industrialisation Process
 Working class family members left home each day
 Different places of employment
 Paid as individuals
 Moving from confines of familiar village = social dislocation
 Less stability?
- For Middle class industrialization = separate spheres
Industrialisation, women and immorality
 Engels and the family
 Factory owners
 Trade Unions
 Attitudes of factory operatives
 Sex and the workplace
 Philanthropic interest in ‘the poor’
Income and gender
 Sexual division of labour




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