The First Industrial Woman

by Deborah Valenze

Book Overview

Why study women and the industrial revolution? Deborah Valenze's groundbreaking reassessment of this classic problem in European history reminds us that questions of gender and work are at the center of our experience in the modern world.
Too often, the study of industrialization charts an inevitable and largely technological course. Valenze sets aside this approach in order to examine the underlying assumptions about gender and work that informed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195089820
• ISBN13: 9780195089820
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview of an important topic

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