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Article: Women, women's history, and the Industrial Revolution.
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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Introduction
IN WHAT WAYS has women's history contributed to our understanding of the Industrial Revolution in Britain? No, I will not argue here that women were among the heroic tinkers who invented the "gadgets" that revolutionized textile production, the entrepreneurial giants of the engineering industry, or the innovative chemists of the dye industry. The contribution of women's history to the classic questions about capitalist industrialization is part of the dual process of "de-economizing" and "socializing" economic history and "re-economizing" social history. For economic history, this does not mean dropping old economic concerns about scarcity, ...