Women, Work, and Politics: Belgium 1830-1914 - Hardcover

Hilden, Patricia Penn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019822883X ISBN 13: 9780198228837

Verlag: Clarendon Press, 1993

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Book by Hilden Patricia Penn

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Críticas:

This is an impressively researched and convincingly argued book. This study demonstrates beyond all doubt the reality of what might be termed `l'exception belge'. Hilden's analysis provides the reader with a clear sense of the general movement of Belgian history in the nineteenth century. There are excellent chapters dealing with the First and Second International. This is a rich and rewarding book which by way of comparison helps us to reassess the history of labour in nineteenth-century France. Thoroughly recommended. (Ceri Crossley, University of Birmingham, Labour History Review, Vol. 59, No. 2, Autumn 1994)

adds to our knowledge of the diversity of women's experience of work and politics in the period of industrialization, rendring yet more compex our picture of omen in the past. (Gender and History)

Her book provides a good sketch of Belgian history...the book is invaluable...She has written a committed labor history, refreshing at a time when the French far Right has reached 20 percent of the vote in presidential elections and the looney Right has taken over the U.S. Congress. (American Historical Review)

a welcome contribution to the historiography of a country which, as she regularly reminds her readers, has been much neglected by historians of modern Europe ... With the air of a neophyte exploring uncharted territory, Hilden revels in the strangeness of the Belgian socio-political landscape ... innovative book. (Martin Conway, Balliol College, Oxford, EHR, June 1996)

In this book Patricia Penn Hilden shakes the foundations of the received wisdom about the withdrawal of women from work during industrialization. Hilden has written an absorbing, informative, convincingly argued book ... this is a major work, which successfully situates women at the centre of labour history and social history. (Kelly Boyd, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, The Historical Association 1996)

Reseña del editor:

This is a study of the working women of Belgium from the country's independence in 1830 until the First World War. Patricia Penn Hilden argues that the success of Belgium's industrial revolution - second only to Britain's in the nineteenth century - was uniquely dependent on female labour.

In contrast to women in other European nations, Belgian women earned their wages in virtually every industrial setting: in mines and mills, in factories, on the docks, and in the dozens of semi-artisanal trades that underpinned industrial development. Women's widespread and significant participation in the labour market - unrestricted by the labour legislation that elsewhere controlled female waged work - found expression in the emergent politics of Belgium's working class. Women not only participated in male-led politics, but also created and led their own `women's movements', first during the `anarchist' period of the First International, then during the organization of socialist politics after 1880.

Dr Hilden's extensively researched analysis indicates the extent to which the economic and political activities of Belgium's ouvrières and arbeidsters mirrored their small country's many deviations from historical patterns prevalent elsewhere. This important scholarly study has many valuable contributions to make to our understanding of the relations between socialism and feminism, labour history, and the history of Belgium.

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• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 019822883X
• ISBN 13: 9780198228837
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 372