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Manual work and pay, 1900-1970
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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:15 authored by Ian GazeleyThis chapter examines changes in the nature of waged work and pay in the first seventy years of the 20th century. At the beginning of the century, the vast majority of adult men and only one in three adult women worked. By 1970, nearly half of all adult women were in paid employment and the proportion of economically inactive adult men had increased to about one in ten. Female employment remained concentrated in very few industrial sectors during the first half of the century.
History
Publication status
- Published
Publisher
Oxford University PressPage range
55-79Pages
376.0Book title
Work and pay in 20th century BritainISBN
9780199212668Department affiliated with
- History Publications
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- Yes