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- Title
‘The wife's administration of the earnings’? Working-class women and savings in the mid-nineteenth century.
- Authors
MALTBY, JOSEPHINE
- Abstract
A survey of working-class women's activity as savers offers a new insight into their economic activity, opening questions about the sources inside and outside the family of the money saved by single and married women. It is relevant to a number of issues: the economic activity of married women and its relationship to the legal context in which they were operating – in particular before the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882; the extent to which women's employment in the nineteenth century may have been mis-stated and/or under-reported; and the distribution of income within the working-class family. A study of investment patterns within two savings banks, one in Huddersfield and one in Sheffield in the mid-nineteenth century, suggests that working-class women may have been more active as savers than has been reported by earlier studies.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; HUDDERSFIELD (England); ENGLAND; LEGAL status of women; LEGAL status of married women; WORKING class women; FAMILIES &; economics; INCOME inequality; SAVINGS; WOMEN; HILLSBOROUGH Stadium Disaster, Sheffield, England, 1989; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Continuity & Change, 2011, Vol 26, Issue 2, p187
- ISSN
0268-4160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0268416011000130