Not Only The Dangerous Trades

Women's Work And Health In Britain 1880-1914

By: Barbara Harrison

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Paperback | 20 December 1996 | Edition Number 1

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Using original research and focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women workers, this book presents a perspective for the analysis of both gender and work and work and ill-health. The author gives a critique of traditional theoretical accounts of gender relations, state intervention and industrial ill-health. The chapters examine the extent to which feminist activists got involved in debates about health and industrial work, and show how activists went beyond the concerns of suffrage.; The book presents a historical period which was marked by a change in the role of the state with respect to intervention in industrial conditions, and analyses the coincidence of this with three other significant developments: the growth of expertise in industrial disease; the employment of women in the factory to take on responsibilities in relation to other women; and changes in the direction of feminist activism. In light of this analysis, the author suggests that some theoretical approaches to both gender relations and health and safety requirements require modification.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Family & Health Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Work & Labour Science

Biology, Life Sciences Human Biology Medical Anthropology Industry & Industrial Studies Industrial Relations, Health & Safety Health & Safety Issues

List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction Setting the Scene	p. 1
The Problem	p. 19
Suffer the Working Day: Women's Work and Endangered Health	p. 21
The 'Dangerous Trades'	p. 51
Work, Maternity and Domestic Labours	p. 80
Out of the Factory: Health and Work in Non-Industrial Occupations	p. 106
Responses	p. 137
State Intervention: 'Protective' Legislation and Women's Health	p. 139
Medical Men	p. 163
'Missionaries of the State'	p. 181
Women, Feminism and the Politics of 'Protective' Legislation	p. 200
A Concluding Discussion: Toward a Feminist Analysis of the State, Women's Paid Work and Occupational Ill-Health	p. 223
Appendix	p. 248
Index	p. 273
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