Description: Introduction: Finding the First Industrial Woman 1. Habits of Industry: Laboring Women and the Poor in surh-Century England 2. Economies of Survival: Laboring Women and Agricultural Change, 1750 - 1800 3. The Art of Women and the Business of Men: Women's work and the Dairy Industry 4. The Quarrel with Women's Work: Spinning and Displacement of Female Labor 5. A New World of Work: Female labor and the Development of the Factory System 6. Invisible Breadwinners: Women and the Declining Status of the Cottage Industry 7. Women in the age of Malthus: Political Economy and the Feminization of the Female Worker 8. Recasting Women in the Workshop of the World: Middle-Class Authority and the Female Poor 9. The Other Victorian Women: The Domestic Servant in the Industrial Age Conclusion

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