Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland, 1890-1914 by Joanna Bourke

Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland, 1890-1914

Joanna Bourke

342 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

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This book examines the lives of Irish women between 1890 and 1914, tracing the shift of their labour out of the fields and into the home. Joanna Bourke shows how their position within the employment market deteriorated: married women came to be in...

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