New PDF release: Young Women, Work, and Family in England 1918-1950

By Selina Todd

This attention-grabbing account of younger women's lives demanding situations present assumptions approximately operating type lifestyles and womanhood in England among the tip of the 1st international battle and the start of the Nineteen Fifties. whereas contemporaries regularly portrayed younger ladies as pleasure-loving rest shoppers, this ebook argues that the realm of labor used to be actually valuable to their existence studies. Social and fiscal background are woven jointly to ascertain the operating, relations, and social lives of the maids, manufacturing unit staff, store assistants, and clerks who made up the vast majority of England's younger ladies. Selina Todd strains the complicated interplay among classification, gender, and locale that formed younger women's roles at paintings and residential, indicating that paid paintings dependent people's lives extra profoundly than many social histories recommend. wealthy autobiographical money owed express that, whereas poverty endured to constrain existence offerings, younger ladies additionally made their very own background. faraway from being apathetic employees or pliant shoppers, they solid new styles of occupational and social mobility, have been very important breadwinners in operating classification houses, built a special formative years tradition, and acted as office militants. In doing so that they helped to form twentieth-century society.

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