TY - BOOK ID - 3117219 TI - Gender, work and wages in industrial revolution Britain PY - 2008 VL - *5 SN - 9780521880633 9780511495779 9780521312288 9780511394911 0511394918 0511392192 9780511392191 0511394268 9780511394263 0521880637 0521312280 9780511393501 0511393504 1107184509 9781107184503 1281370649 9781281370648 9786611370640 6611370641 0511495773 0511390955 9780511390951 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women employees KW - Sex discrimination against women KW - Industrial revolution KW - History KW - Female employees KW - Women workers KW - Working women KW - Workingwomen KW - Employees KW - Discrimination against women KW - Subordination of women KW - Women, Discrimination against KW - Feminism KW - Sex discrimination KW - Women's rights KW - Male domination (Social structure) KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3117219 AB - A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity. ER -