Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood

by Helen McCarthy and Helen McCarthy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408870738
• ISBN13: 9781408870730
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"