Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson
Ashgate
Hardback
264
2005
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the cultural practices and identities associated with women's work in modern Britain. The volume is divided into five thematic sections: the meaning of work factory labour youth medicine and science and women and war. The essays examine a wide-range of primary sources including literary fiction popular magazines social commentaries oral testimony and autobiographical writing.