The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women’s work in the nin

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Provides an overview of the various occupations men, women, and children held in nineteenth-century America.

Throughout Latin America's history the world of work has been linked to race, class, and gender within the larger framework of changing social, political, and e

The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism, the challenge to slavery - these and other developments fueled an anxious debate about work in an