pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: HUSBANDRY TO HOUSEWIFERY
WOMEN, ECONOMIC CHANGE, AND HOUSEWORK IN IRELAND 1890-1914
By: Joanna Bourke
Format: Hardback

List price: £44.49


We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10: 0198203853
ISBN 13: 9780198203858
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 21 October, 1993
Pages: 360
Description: This is a study of the lives of Irish women between 1890 and 1914. Joanna Bourke traces the shift of their labour from the fields and into the home, showing how their position within the employment market deteriorated. Controversially, she demonstrates that Irish women welcomed this altered role, preferring housework to many of the other options available to them.
Synopsis: This book examines the lives of Irish women between 1890 and 1914, tracing the shift of their labour out of the fields and into the home. Joanna Bourke shows how their position within the employment market deteriorated: married women came to be increasingly dependent on their husbands' earnings, while economic opportunities for unmarried and widowed women collapsed. More and more women devoted all their productive enterprise to performing housework. In this thoroughly documented and carefully argued study, Dr Bourke analyses the crucial elements in this change: the coincidence of sectoral shifts in the employment market, increasing investment in the rural economy, and the growth of a labour-intensive household sector. Controversially, she argues that Irish women welcomed their altered role, finding housework preferable to many of the other options available to them.
Illustrations: tables
Publication: UK
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
A WAR STORY 1914-1932 (PB)
AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF KILLING (PB)
BIRKBECK (HB)
DARK IS THE ROOM WHERE WE SLEEP (HB)
DISGRACE (HB)
DISMEMBERING THE MALE (HB)
DISMEMBERING THE MALE (HB)
DISMEMBERING THE MALE (PB)
EYEWITNESS: 1950-1999 (CD)
FEAR (HB)
FEAR (HB)
FEAR (PB)
FEAR (PB)
INTIMATE HISTORY OF KILLING (PB)
LOVING ANIMALS (HB)
RAPE (HB)
RAPE (HB)
RAPE (PB)
THE STORY OF PAIN (HB)
THE STORY OF PAIN (PB)
WAR AND ART (HB)
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN (HB)
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN (HB)
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN (PB)
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN (PB)
WORKING CLASS CULTURES IN BRITAIN 1890-1960 (HB)
WORKING CLASS CULTURES IN BRITAIN 1890-1960 (PB)
WORKING CLASS CULTURES IN BRITAIN, 1890-1960
WORKING CLASS CULTURES IN BRITAIN, 1890-1960
WORKING CLASS CULTURES IN BRITAIN, 1890-1960
WORKING CLASS CULTURES IN BRITAIN, 1890-1960
WORKING CLASS CULTURES IN BRITAIN, 1890-1960
WOUNDING THE WORLD
WOUNDING THE WORLD (HB)
WOUNDING THE WORLD (PB)

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Tudors: England 1485-1603 (Paperback)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £31.72
more details
Making Sense of the Troubles (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £12.40
more details
The Hollow Crown (Paperback)
Faber & Faber
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Medieval Monsters (Hardback)
The British Library Publishing Division
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Ancient Britain (Sheet map, folded)
Ordnance Survey
Our Price : £5.83
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 HUMANITIES
 history
 british & irish history


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 






Early Learning
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB) Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
add to basket

Early Learning
add to basket

Picture Book
All the Things We Carry PB What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
add to basket