Husbandry to Housewifery
Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland 1890-1914
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Product details:
- Edition number First
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 21 October 1993
- ISBN 9780198203858
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 217x146x25 mm
- Weight 348 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables 0
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Short 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.
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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.
'Joanna Bourke has written an important and stimulating study of the economics of housework in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland ... immensely informative book'
Virginia Crossman, Linen Hall Review, Spring 1994
