Women and Industry
This is a collection of essays with nine of the ten essays dealing with women in the textile trades in one way or another. The essay on a Saxon textile district is perhaps the longest and one is more than halfway through it before one gets a direct statement about women in the textile trade. All of the point to the textile trade in the pre- and proto-industrial eras being seasonal and part-time. Many of them also note the important contribution women in these trades made to family and regional income despite in most cases being paid extremely low wages for the work they did. Inasmuch as several essays also deal with employer/worker relations this work should also find its way onto labor history bookshelves as well as women's studies.
