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Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh

Palgrave Macmillan

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

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction

    • Elizabeth C. Sanderson
    Pages 1-4
  3. The Retail Trade

    • Elizabeth C. Sanderson
    Pages 5-40
  4. Single Women and Independence

    • Elizabeth C. Sanderson
    Pages 74-107
  5. Married Women and Subsistence

    • Elizabeth C. Sanderson
    Pages 108-135
  6. Women and Poverty

    • Elizabeth C. Sanderson
    Pages 136-167
  7. Conclusion

    • Elizabeth C. Sanderson
    Pages 168-172
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 173-236

About this book

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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