
By Angela V. John
ISBN-10: 041538009X
ISBN-13: 9780415380096
ISBN-10: 0415852781
ISBN-13: 9780415852784
The pit forehead lasses who taken care of coal and played quite a few jobs above flooring at British coal mines triggered a violent debate approximately women’s paintings within the 19th century.
Seen because the top instance of degraded womanhood, the pit forehead lady used to be considered as an aberration in a masculine area, cruelly torn from her ‘natural sphere’, the house. The, try and limit women’s paintings on the mines within the Eighties highlights the dichotomy among the modern perfect of womanhood and the need and truth of woman handbook labour.
Although just a tiny percent of the colliery labour strength, the pit lasses aroused an curiosity out of all percentage to their numbers and their paintings grew to become a attempt case for women’s outdoors guide employment. Angela John discusses the results of this debate, exhibiting the way it encapsulates a few of the ambivalences of overdue Victorian attitudes in the direction of working-class lady employment, and whilst increases wider questions either approximately women’s paintings in industries noticeable as usually male enclaves, and in regards to the ways that girls in the operating group were offered through historians.This ebook used to be first released in 1980.