History from underneath: girls experience in an era of economic change
The paper uses autobiographical accounts by 227 working women alongside a larger sample of men’s life stories to compare girl and boys’ experiences of first jobs, schooling and family life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It asks whether girls were disadvantaged in se...
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Format: | Working paper |
Language: | English |
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University of Oxford
2019
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