Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century

Description

Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century is the first comprehensive collection of women’s economic writing in the long nineteenth century. The four-volume anthology includes writing from women around the world, showcases the wide variety and range of economic writing by women in the period, and establishes a tradition of women’s economic writing; selections include didactic tales, fictional illustrations, poetry, economic theory, social theory, reports, letters, novels, speeches, dialogues, and self-help books. The anthology is divided into eight themed sections: political economy, feminist economics, domestic economics, labor, philanthropy and poverty, consumerism, emigration and empire, and self-help. Each section begins with an introduction that tells a story about women writers’ relationship to the section theme and then provides an overview of the selections contained therein. Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century demonstrates just how common it was for women to write about economics in the nineteenth century and establishes important throughlines and trajectories within their body of work. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments General Introduction Part 4 Labor Editorial Headnote 1 “On Needlework,” The Lady’s Magazine or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement 2 A Voice From the Factories. In Serious Verse 3 The Communion of Labour, a Second Lecture on the Social Employments of Women 4 “A Year’s Experience in Woman’s Work” 5 “Life in the Iron Mills” 6 Experience of Factory Life: Being a Record of Fourteen Years’ Work at Mr. Courtauld’s Silk Mill at Halstead, In Essex 7 “The Education and Employment of Women” 8 An Appeal to the People of England on the Recognition and Superintendence of Prostitution by Governments 9 “Women’s Work, With Special Reference to Industrial Employment” 10 Sketches of Working Women 11 “The Position of Working Women and How to Improve It” 12 “The Industrial Employment of Women,” Fraser’s Magazine 13 Factory Act Legislation: Its Industrial and Commercial Effects, Actual and Prospective 14 “Battle Hymn of Labor,” Arena 15 One Thousand Dollars a Day: Studies in Practical Economics 16 An Agitator: A Novel 17 “Women’s Work and the Factory Acts,” The Condition of Working Women and the Factory Acts 18 Women and the Factory Acts 19 “In the Sweating Dens of West and East London,” The Soul Market Part 5 Poverty and Philanthropy Editorial Headnote 20 “An Account of a Charitable Bank at Tottenham” in The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, Vol. IV 21 Experiences of a Workhouse Visitor 22 “How Can We Eradicate the Pauper Taint from Our Workhouse Children” 23 “A Note on Pauperism” Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country 24 “The Homeless Poor,” in The Poems of Adelaide A. Procter 25 “Organized Work Among the Poor,” in Homes of the London Poor 26 “The Subtle Problems of Charity,” Atlantic Monthly Index