Name: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
ISBN: 978-1-349-24644-1

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Elizabeth C. Sanderson

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Part of the book series: Studies in Gender History (SGH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xii

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Introduction
- Elizabeth C. Sanderson
Pages 1-4
The Retail Trade
- Elizabeth C. Sanderson
Pages 5-40
Roomsetters, Nurses and Graveclothes-Makers: Community Care in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
- Elizabeth C. Sanderson
Pages 41-73
Single Women and Independence
- Elizabeth C. Sanderson
Pages 74-107
Married Women and Subsistence
- Elizabeth C. Sanderson
Pages 108-135
Women and Poverty
- Elizabeth C. Sanderson
Pages 136-167
Conclusion
- Elizabeth C. Sanderson
Pages 168-172
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Pages 173-236

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As the first in-depth study of women's experience of work in Scotland before 1800, this book draws on a wide variety of hitherto unexplored sources to throw light on the everyday working activities of women, married and single, successful and deprived, and their role in the urban community. While focusing on Edinburgh, the capital and premier service town of Eighteenth-century Scotland, Dr Sanderson's findings are important in the British context and beyond.

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Book Title: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
Authors: Elizabeth C. Sanderson
Series Title: Studies in Gender History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24644-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-24646-5Published: 01 January 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24644-1Published: 13 July 1996
Series ISSN: 2947-082X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0838
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 236
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social History, Economic History, Gender Studies

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

The Retail Trade

Roomsetters, Nurses and Graveclothes-Makers: Community Care in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh

Single Women and Independence

Married Women and Subsistence

Women and Poverty

Conclusion

Back Matter

Keywords

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