This is a groundbreaking history of mothers who worked for pay that will change the way we think about gender, work, and equality in modern Britain. In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women’s lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. In ‘Double Lives’, Helen McCarthy accounts for this remarkable transformation, whose consequences have been momentous for Britain’s society and economy.

Author Helen McCarthy Published by Bloomsbury ISBN 9781408870754 EAN 9781408870754 Bic Code Cover Other