At work in the fields

This thesis is a historical study comparing the work-lives African-American and English nineteenth-century, field-working women. It focuses on the ideology and structure of the gender division of labour as it formed and informed the lives of these women. It explores the complex relationship among gender and racial ideologies, social and economic structures and the extent to which the women determined their own lives. It argues that the particular historical, ideological and economic forces at work in England and the South differentially constrained their lives. The work is divided into four chapters. The Introduction explains the study's purpose and explores the historical construction of gender ideology. Chapter One examines the declining employment of English female field labourers within its gendered socio-political context. Chapter Two examines the centrality of African-American women's field work as it evolved within the racial contexts of slavery and freedom. The Conclusion highlights the determinative power of economic and ideological forces on the structuring of the gender division of labour and on the ambiguous nature of rural women's agency

Division of labour · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies

• Slavery

  Thomas Thurston•Slavery and Abolition•2006

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• Making of the English Working Class

  E P Thompson•Making of the English Working Class•2013

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• The Agrarian History of England and Wales

  H P R Finberg•The Agrarian History of England…•1972

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• The Village Labourer, 1760-1832

  J H Clapham, J Hammond et al.•The Economic Journal•1912

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• Enclosures, Common Rights, and Women

  Open Access•Jane Humphries•The Journal of Economic History•1990

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• Morals, Manners, and the Republican Mother

  Open Access•Rosemarie Zagarri•American Quarterly•1992

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• Customs in Common

  H W Arthurs, Edward P Thompson•University of Toronto Law Journal•1993

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