'Characteristics of sweating. The late nineteenth century London and Leeds tailoring trade' in A V John (ed), Unequal Opportunities. Women's employment in England, 1800-1918

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Author(s) Morris, Jenny
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1986
Pages pp95-121
Publisher Basil Blackwell
Place Published Oxford

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Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
Name Workers / employee & work, women & men

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Argues that the characteristics of sweating not confined to unregulated workplaces but were a feature of both larger and smaller production units. Analyses the sexual division of labour which is viewed as crucial to understanding why tailoring was a sweated trade and the associated dilution of skills