Sheila Blackburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3963462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheila Blackburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheila |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackburn |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKBURN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work?
The nature of sweating and the origins of low pay legislation are of fundamental social, economic and moral importance. Although difficult to define, sweating, according to a select committee established to investigate the issue, was characterised by long hours, poor working conditions and above all by low pay. By the beginning of the twentieth century the government estimated that up to a third of the British workforce could be classed as sweate…
Between the Devil of Cheap Labour Competition and the Deep Sea of Family Poverty?' Sweated Labour in Time and Place, 1840–1914
When seeking to explain the intractability of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sweating, historians have emphasized women homeworkers' disadvantaged industrial position and sexual discrimination. Yet, if sweating is equated with low pay, both males and females were victims. Poorly waged work is produced and reproduced through social and economic geographies and house-hold poverty. A class-gender perspective exposes the procedures whereby t…
Princesses and Sweated-Wage Slaves Go Well Together”
Taking a long-term perspective, this article charts how sweating was represented in different ways in different periods. It examines the practical difficulties reformers faced when moving from portraying certain images exposing sweated labor to the advocacy of remedies for it. At the turn of the twentieth century, the explanation of sweating as a wider issue of poverty had changed considerably from the narrow definition of sweated labor dating ba…
Gender, work and labour history
Carol Morgan has proposed (Women's History Review, 6[3], 1997) that in future, rather than concentrating their efforts on studying gender conflict, labour historians should research men and women's mutual struggle in the workplace. She cautions those who ignore the implications of local labour markets, regional variations and change over time in order to maximise women's subordinate role at the point of production. These are important considerati…
A Very Moderate Socialist Indeed? R. H. Tawney and Minimum Wages
R. H. Tawney has been placed alongside G. D. H. Cole and Harold Laski as one of the most important contributors to British socialist thought this century. But, on the issue of poverty wages, Tawney was circumspect and conventional. In supporting such a modest reform as the 1909 Trade Boards Act, he was concerned with pragmatic considerations. His two studies of chainmaking and tailoring, funded by the Ratan Tata foundation and carried out at the …
No necessary connection with homework’
Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914 . Eleanor Gordon
How useful are feminist theories of the welfare state
Since the 1970s, a substantial literature on women and welfare has been published. Broadly speaking, this research has been heavily influenced by academics from the disciplines of sociology and social policy who are socialist feminists. However, whilst this socialist feminist work has been significant in exposing the gendered aspects of the welfare state, it is far from perfect. Potentially, historians have much to contribute in creating a more b…
Ideology and Social Policy
The issue of sweated labour formed one of the most intractable social problems of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Numerous remedies to solve sweating, such as the restriction of female and child labour, the abolition of domestic workshops, consumers' leagues, and co-operative production were variously advanced but subsequently found to be wanting. Eventually, and bowing to the inevitable, Edwardians finally sanctioned one cautious m…
Working-Class Attitudes to Social Reform
Historians have recently paid serious attention to the roles of working-class groups in the creation of British social policy, but have largely ignored involvement by sweated workers. This article reveals among chainmakers long-run campaigns against sweating – successively demanding state action to abolish domestic workshops, regulate hours, restrict female work, fix rates for the job, and institute co-operative production. Failure in these campa…
Short notices
Edith Ennen, The Medieval Town (1979), 287 (North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Dfl. 85.00). Translation by Natalie Fryde of Die europäische Stadt des Mittelalters (Gottingen, 1972). J. Michael Hittle, The Service City: State and Townsmen in Russia, 1600–1800 (1979), xii+297 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, £10.50). John T. Evans, Seventeenth‐Century Norwich. Politics, Religion and Government, 1620–1690 (1980), xii…
Ideology and Social Policy
The issue of sweated labour formed one of the most intractable social problems of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Numerous remedies to solve sweating, such as the restriction of female and child labour, the abolition of domestic workshops, consumers' leagues, and co-operative production were variously advanced but subsequently found to be wanting. Eventually, and bowing to the inevitable, Edwardians finally sanctioned one cautious m…
How useful are feminist theories of the welfare state
Since the 1970s, a substantial literature on women and welfare has been published. Broadly speaking, this research has been heavily influenced by academics from the disciplines of sociology and social policy who are socialist feminists. However, whilst this socialist feminist work has been significant in exposing the gendered aspects of the welfare state, it is far from perfect. Potentially, historians have much to contribute in creating a more b…
Working-Class Attitudes to Social Reform
Historians have recently paid serious attention to the roles of working-class groups in the creation of British social policy, but have largely ignored involvement by sweated workers. This article reveals among chainmakers long-run campaigns against sweating – successively demanding state action to abolish domestic workshops, regulate hours, restrict female work, fix rates for the job, and institute co-operative production. Failure in these campa…
Between the Devil of Cheap Labour Competition and the Deep Sea of Family Poverty?' Sweated Labour in Time and Place, 1840–1914
When seeking to explain the intractability of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sweating, historians have emphasized women homeworkers' disadvantaged industrial position and sexual discrimination. Yet, if sweating is equated with low pay, both males and females were victims. Poorly waged work is produced and reproduced through social and economic geographies and house-hold poverty. A class-gender perspective exposes the procedures whereby t…
No necessary connection with homework’
Princesses and Sweated-Wage Slaves Go Well Together”
Taking a long-term perspective, this article charts how sweating was represented in different ways in different periods. It examines the practical difficulties reformers faced when moving from portraying certain images exposing sweated labor to the advocacy of remedies for it. At the turn of the twentieth century, the explanation of sweating as a wider issue of poverty had changed considerably from the narrow definition of sweated labor dating ba…
Short notices
Edith Ennen, The Medieval Town (1979), 287 (North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Dfl. 85.00). Translation by Natalie Fryde of Die europäische Stadt des Mittelalters (Gottingen, 1972). J. Michael Hittle, The Service City: State and Townsmen in Russia, 1600–1800 (1979), xii+297 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, £10.50). John T. Evans, Seventeenth‐Century Norwich. Politics, Religion and Government, 1620–1690 (1980), xii…
Working-Class Attitudes to Social Reform
Historians have recently paid serious attention to the roles of working-class groups in the creation of British social policy, but have largely ignored involvement by sweated workers. This article reveals among chainmakers long-run campaigns against sweating – successively demanding state action to abolish domestic workshops, regulate hours, restrict female work, fix rates for the job, and institute co-operative production. Failure in these campa…
Ideology and Social Policy
The issue of sweated labour formed one of the most intractable social problems of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Numerous remedies to solve sweating, such as the restriction of female and child labour, the abolition of domestic workshops, consumers' leagues, and co-operative production were variously advanced but subsequently found to be wanting. Eventually, and bowing to the inevitable, Edwardians finally sanctioned one cautious m…
Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914 . Eleanor Gordon
How useful are feminist theories of the welfare state
Since the 1970s, a substantial literature on women and welfare has been published. Broadly speaking, this research has been heavily influenced by academics from the disciplines of sociology and social policy who are socialist feminists. However, whilst this socialist feminist work has been significant in exposing the gendered aspects of the welfare state, it is far from perfect. Potentially, historians have much to contribute in creating a more b…
No necessary connection with homework’
A Very Moderate Socialist Indeed? R. H. Tawney and Minimum Wages
R. H. Tawney has been placed alongside G. D. H. Cole and Harold Laski as one of the most important contributors to British socialist thought this century. But, on the issue of poverty wages, Tawney was circumspect and conventional. In supporting such a modest reform as the 1909 Trade Boards Act, he was concerned with pragmatic considerations. His two studies of chainmaking and tailoring, funded by the Ratan Tata foundation and carried out at the …
Gender, work and labour history
Carol Morgan has proposed (Women's History Review, 6[3], 1997) that in future, rather than concentrating their efforts on studying gender conflict, labour historians should research men and women's mutual struggle in the workplace. She cautions those who ignore the implications of local labour markets, regional variations and change over time in order to maximise women's subordinate role at the point of production. These are important considerati…
Princesses and Sweated-Wage Slaves Go Well Together”
Taking a long-term perspective, this article charts how sweating was represented in different ways in different periods. It examines the practical difficulties reformers faced when moving from portraying certain images exposing sweated labor to the advocacy of remedies for it. At the turn of the twentieth century, the explanation of sweating as a wider issue of poverty had changed considerably from the narrow definition of sweated labor dating ba…
Between the Devil of Cheap Labour Competition and the Deep Sea of Family Poverty?' Sweated Labour in Time and Place, 1840–1914
When seeking to explain the intractability of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sweating, historians have emphasized women homeworkers' disadvantaged industrial position and sexual discrimination. Yet, if sweating is equated with low pay, both males and females were victims. Poorly waged work is produced and reproduced through social and economic geographies and house-hold poverty. A class-gender perspective exposes the procedures whereby t…
A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work?
The nature of sweating and the origins of low pay legislation are of fundamental social, economic and moral importance. Although difficult to define, sweating, according to a select committee established to investigate the issue, was characterised by long hours, poor working conditions and above all by low pay. By the beginning of the twentieth century the government estimated that up to a third of the British workforce could be classed as sweate…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Wage (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works)