a history of working motherhood
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- McCarthy, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 2020 B
- Thesaurus
- moeders, betaalde arbeid, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. À century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded from many occupations, whilst their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. McCarthy accounts for this transformation, whose consequences have been momentous for Britain's society and economy.