A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupa

This text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.

The work of women is recognised as having been fundamental to the industrialization of Britain. These studies explore how that work was remunerated, in studies

First Published in 2004. It is often assumed that the woman worker was produced by the Industrial Revolution, and that since that time women have taken an incre

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies writt