Young Women, Work, and Family in England, 1918-1950

Bibliographic Data

ID9798402
AuthorsDavid Fowler (0000-0001-5806-2659, University of Cambridge, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume121
Issue494
Pages1493-1496
Publication date2006-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe English Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ehr/cel314
OpenAlexW1982178721
LanguageEN
Citations received14

IN this engaging and provocative study, Selina Todd revisits the pioneering work of social historians of the 1980s on the themes of gender, youth, and working-class cultures, to explore the lives of young female wage-earners; from the moment they entered full-time employment at fourteen, to the age at which they married (the mid-twenties between the Wars; but somewhat earlier, around twenty-three, by the early 1950s). The book is based on a Sussex Ph.D. and is rooted in a range of contemporary sources—Government reports (published and unpublished), social surveys from the likes of Mass Observation, Labour Party reports and publications, and trade union records. Not all of this contemporary material is riveting social commentary, given that governments were primarily concerned with labour market questions, training, productivity levels and the like. But the book is brought alive by richer additional sources: most notably, oral history material lodged in several archives; including the Imperial War Museum and the Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre, Ashton-under-Lyne

Archaeology · Economic growth · Family economy · Government (linguistics · Oral history · Political science · Productivity · Social history (medicine · Sociology · Wage · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medicine

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