Women, Work, and Politics
Belgium 1830-1914
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 November 1993
- ISBN 9780198228837
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 225x143x26 mm
- Weight 546 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is a study of the working women of Belgium from 1830 to 1914. Patricia Penn Hilden argues that the success of Belgium's industrial revolution was uniquely dependant on female labour. She examines the widespread participation of Belgian women in the labour market, and explores their role in the emergent politics of Belgium's working class. This is an important scholarly study which makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the relations between socialism and feminism, to labour history, and to the history of Belgium.
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This is a study of the working women of Belgium from the country's independence in 1830 until the First World War. Patricia Penn Hilden argues that the success of Belgium's industrial revolution - second only to Britain's in the nineteenth century - was uniquely dependent on female labour.
In contrast to women in other European nations, Belgian women earned their wages in virtually every industrial setting: in mines and mills, in factories, on the docks, and in the dozens of semi-artisanal trades that underpinned industrial development. Women's widespread and significant participation in the labour market - unrestricted by the labour legislation that elsewhere controlled female waged work - found expression in the emergent politics of Belgium's working class. Women not only participated in male-led politics, but also created and led their own `women's movements', first during the `anarchist' period of the First International, then during the organization of socialist politics after 1880.
Dr Hilden's extensively researched analysis indicates the extent to which the economic and political activities of Belgium's ouvrières and arbeidsters mirrored their small country's many deviations from historical patterns prevalent elsewhere. This important scholarly study has many valuable contributions to make to our understanding of the relations between socialism and feminism, labour history, and the history of Belgium.
This is an impressively researched and convincingly argued book. This study demonstrates beyond all doubt the reality of what might be termed `l'exception belge'. Hilden's analysis provides the reader with a clear sense of the general movement of Belgian history in the nineteenth century. There are excellent chapters dealing with the First and Second International. This is a rich and rewarding book which by way of comparison helps us to reassess the history of labour in nineteenth-century France. Thoroughly recommended.
