This is a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs co

A history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles between 1789 and 1914.

This study provides an accessible and authoritative account of poverty and deviance during the early modern period, informed by those perspectives on the role o

In their attempt to cope with the daunting problems of poverty and pregnancy, poor women in nineteenth-century France struggled with their environment and in so

A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupa