Product Description: Family Fortunes has become a seminal text in class and gender history. Published to wide critical acclaim in 1987, its influence in the field continues to be extensive. It has cast new light on the perception of middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents a wide-ranging and important collection of new work on gender history. It includes a variety of international contributions which provide the reader with a global perspective on how gender history has developed and where it is going...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Drawing on the authors' primary research, this is a radical approach to the history of the family in England from 1830-1960. Examined are those dimensions so often overlooked, such as fatherhood, singleness, illegitimacy, and lodgers & servants...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The lives of British women born between 1880 and 1914 are recounted in their own words, providing a vivid and poignant portrait of what it meant to be a girl earning a living when women doing paid work were often regarded as second best, when wages were low and options limited.Our Work, Our Lives, Our Words gathers a wealth of original material that covers a variety of occupations, including harvesting, tailoring, mill working, clerical jobs, teaching, and the civil service.