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Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860

Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860

Greenlees, Janet

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Labour History

General World History

ISBN10: 0754640507
ISBN13: 9780754640509
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 28 2007
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The cotton industry was the first large-scale factory system to emerge during the industrial revolution, and as such there were no set business practices for employers or employees to follow in the organisation of the shop floor. In this book, Janet Greenlees argues that this situation provided workers in both Britain and the United States with a unique opportunity to influence decisions about work patterns and conditions of labour, and to set the precedent for industries that were to follow. Furthermore, data relating to the mass employment of women in the cotton industries, is used to challenge many of the tacit assumptions of women's passivity as workers that pervade the current literature.

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