The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship explores the relationship between home,
household headship and enterprise in Victorian London. It examines the notions of duty …

Patricia Zakreski's interdisciplinary study draws on fiction, prose, painting, and the periodical
press to expand and redefine our understanding of women's relationship to paid work during …

Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But although New York based garment workers were …

In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew; needlework was allied with
images of domestic economy and with traditional female roles of wife and mother-with home …

The aim of the series is to reflect, develop and extend the great burgeoning of interest in the
nineteenth century that has been an inevitable feature of recent years, as that former epoch …

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 …

This book explores gendered aspects in the memory of work by looking at auto/biographical
narratives and political writings of women workers in the garment industry. The author draws …

Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary performs a ground-
breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between literary cloth-working women …

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 …

Operating between 1918 and 1955 the Disabled Soldiers' Embroidery Industry was perhaps
the most successful and high-profile scheme that aimed to help disabled combatants …