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- Title
A (Working) Woman's Place: As the Industrial Revolution wrought widespread social changes, female cotton industry workers' lives changed dramatically.
- Authors
Wilkes, Sue
- Abstract
The article focuses on the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the lives of female cotton industry workers. Topics discussed include statistics on men and women working in cotton factories in Lancashire, England in the 1840s, evidence that factory women's 12 hour shifts endangered their children's health, and use of penny savings banks by thrifty women helping themselves and their families.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL revolution; WOMEN employees; COTTON trade employees; COTTON trade; FACTORIES; INDUSTRIAL workers; SAVINGS banks
- Publication
History Today, 2017, Vol 67, Issue 6, p16
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article