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By the sweat of their brow: Women workers at Victorian coal mines
By the sweat of their brow Women workers at Victorian coal mines
Author: Angela V John
The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women?s work in the nineteenth century. Seen as the prime example of degraded womanhood, the pit brow woman was regarded as an aberration in a masculine domain, cruelly torn from her ?natural sphere?, the home....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780856647482
ISBN-10: 0856647489
Pages: 245
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Publisher: Croom Helm
Book Type: Hardcover
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