Not Only The Dangerous Trades: Women's Work And Health In Britain 1880-1914

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Using original research and focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women workers, this book presents a perspective for the analysis of both gender and work and work and ill-health. The author gives a critique of traditional theoretical accounts of gender relations, state intervention and industrial ill-health. The chapters examine the extent to which feminist activists got involved in debates about health and industrial work, and show how activists went beyond the concerns of suffrage.; The book ...
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Overview

Using original research and focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women workers, this book presents a perspective for the analysis of both gender and work and work and ill-health. The author gives a critique of traditional theoretical accounts of gender relations, state intervention and industrial ill-health. The chapters examine the extent to which feminist activists got involved in debates about health and industrial work, and show how activists went beyond the concerns of suffrage.; The book presents a historical period which was marked by a change in the role of the state with respect to intervention in industrial conditions, and analyses the coincidence of this with three other significant developments: the growth of expertise in industrial disease; the employment of women in the factory to take on responsibilities in relation to other women; and changes in the direction of feminist activism. In light of this analysis, the author suggests that some theoretical approaches to both gender relations and health and safety requirements require modification.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780748401451
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 2/1/1997
  • Series: Gender and Society Series
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 300
  • Product dimensions: 6.14 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures and Appendix
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Setting the Scene 1
Pt. I The Problem 19
Ch. 1 Suffer the Working Day: Women's Work and Endangered Health 21
Ch. 2 The 'Dangerous Trades' 51
Ch. 3 Work, Maternity and Domestic Labours 80
Ch. 4 Out of the Factory: Health and Work in Non-industrial Occupations 106
Pt. II Responses 137
Ch. 5 State Intervention: 'Protective' Legislation and Women's Health 139
Ch. 6 Medical Men and Women's Occupational Ill-health 163
Ch. 7 'Missionaries of the State': Women Factory Inspectors and Women at Work 181
Ch. 8 Women, Feminism and the Politics of 'Protective' Legislation 200
Ch. 9 A Concluding Discussion: Toward a Feminist Analysis of the State, Women's Paid Work and Occupational Ill-health 223
App Chronology of Women's Inspectorate Personnel 1893-1921 248
Bibliography 252
Index 273
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