Double lives : a history of working motherhood in modern Britain
McCarthy, Helen2020
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This is 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.
Main title:
Double lives : a history of working motherhood in modern Britain / Helen McCarthy.
Author:
McCarthy, Helen, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Collation:
viii, 537 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm ; 16 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408870730 (hbk)
Dewey class:
331.440941331.4409331.44
LC class:
HQ759.48
Language:
English
BRN:
2699889
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