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By Selina Todd

This attention-grabbing account of younger women's lives demanding situations latest assumptions approximately operating type lifestyles and womanhood in England among the top of the 1st international conflict and the start of the Fifties. whereas contemporaries regularly portrayed younger ladies as pleasure-loving rest shoppers, this ebook argues that the realm of labor was once in reality vital to their lifestyles stories. Social and fiscal historical past are woven jointly to ascertain the operating, relations, and social lives of the maids, manufacturing unit staff, store assistants, and clerks who made up the vast majority of England's younger women. Selina Todd strains the complicated interplay among classification, gender, and locale that formed younger women's roles at paintings and residential, indicating that paid paintings dependent people's lives extra profoundly than many social histories recommend. wealthy autobiographical money owed express that, whereas poverty endured to constrain lifestyles offerings, younger women additionally made their very own historical past. faraway from being apathetic employees or pliant shoppers, they cast new styles of occupational and social mobility, have been vital breadwinners in operating classification houses, constructed a unique early life tradition, and acted as place of work militants. In doing so that they helped to form twentieth-century society.

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