A major 2008 study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.
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"...well-written and carefully researched book." -Anne Clendinning, H-Albion
"Burnette enters the field with an argument that -although not new- is controversial: 'occupational sorting' and lower wages for women were a rational, efficent, and optimal response to biological differences. -Deborah Oxley, Industrical and Labor Relations Review
"Burnette enters the field with an argument that -although not new- is controversial: 'occupational sorting' and lower wages for women were a rational, efficent, and optimal response to biological differences. -Deborah Oxley, Industrical and Labor Relations Review
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Major 2008 study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. Joyce Burnette demonstrates that gender differences in occupations and wages were largely driven by market forces and resulted from actual differences in productivity. She shows that rather than harming women competition actually helped them.
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gender segregation, gender antagonism, army data, medical living, social capital, job segregation, occupational sorting, segregation constraints, wage correlations, occupational barriers, poor law payments, parliamentary investigator, male agricultural laborers, competitive portions, occupational constraints, male spinners, consumer discrimination, larger mules, wage ratio, glove trade, commercial directory, mule spinners, framework knitters, male productivity, customary wages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Industrial Revolution Britain, New York, Cambridge University Press, Arthur Young, State of the Poor, Women's Work, Family Fortunes, Economic History Review, Pamela Sharpe, Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland, Northern Tour, The Times, Rural Queries, Alfred Austin, Nineteenth Century Farm Women, Sonya Rose, Oxford University Press, The Early English Trade Unions, Journal of Economic History, Deborah Valenze, James Mitchell, Edward Higgs, Rural History Centre, Bitter Living, Clarendon Press Browse Sample Pages:
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gender segregation, gender antagonism, army data, medical living, social capital, job segregation, occupational sorting, segregation constraints, wage correlations, occupational barriers, poor law payments, parliamentary investigator, male agricultural laborers, competitive portions, occupational constraints, male spinners, consumer discrimination, larger mules, wage ratio, glove trade, commercial directory, mule spinners, framework knitters, male productivity, customary wages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Industrial Revolution Britain, New York, Cambridge University Press, Arthur Young, State of the Poor, Women's Work, Family Fortunes, Economic History Review, Pamela Sharpe, Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland, Northern Tour, The Times, Rural Queries, Alfred Austin, Nineteenth Century Farm Women, Sonya Rose, Oxford University Press, The Early English Trade Unions, Journal of Economic History, Deborah Valenze, James Mitchell, Edward Higgs, Rural History Centre, Bitter Living, Clarendon Press Browse Sample Pages:
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