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Strength and Power in the Industrial Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Claudia Goldin
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Joyce Burnette's (2008) book investigates why women earned lower wages and had different occupations than men during the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Of more relevance in the present is why women often have lower earnings than and work in different occupations from men today. The answers from the past and present have some similarity, but the differences are considerably greater. The world of “brawn” jobs was transformed by technological change and sectoral shifts into a world of “brain” jobs. I will first address the question posed in the book and will end with that concerning today.

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Special Section: Debating Gender, Work, and Wages: A Roundtable Discussion
Information
Social Science History , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , Winter 2009 , pp. 473 - 479
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2009 

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