MY WIFE, MY DAUGHTER AND POOR MARYANN - WOMEN & WORK

Women and Work in Australia.

This book tells of the movement of women into the workforce from the 1860s to the 1930s, when paid employment at last became respectable for unmarried women.  The factory, school, hospital or office was often preferable to life at home, in spite of long hours and appalling conditions.

But what of the women who did not work?  Beverley Kingston has used diaries, letters, newspapers and women's magazines to reveal the unenviable lot of those who rocked the cradles of the developing Australian nation.  The coming of gas and electricity merely served to bind women more firmly to the home, where they became minders of machines and small children in millions of 'unsupervised factories' throughout towns and cities, in which any kind of slavery was condoned in the name of comfort and good living.

This book make compelling reading about an important and largely ignored aspect of our country's past.

This 158 page softcover is illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and advertisements.  The cover has some edgewear and rubbing wear and a very light spine crease.  Internally there is a little light browning to page edges due to age (does not impact on page face), but it is otherwise in a good, tight, clean condition.

Postage quoted is for within Australia. Overseas customer are more than welcome to email me for a postage quote.

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