Precarious professionals : gender, identities and social change in modern Britain / edited by Heidi Egginton and Zoë Thomas.

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Precarious Professionals uncovers the inequalities and insecurities which lay at the heart of professional life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. The book challenges conventional categories in the history of work, exploring instead the everyday labour of maintaining a professional identi...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:New historical perspectives.
Other Authors: Egginton, Heidi (Editor)
Thomas, Zoë (Editor)
Language:English
Published: London : Royal Historical Society : Institute of Historical Research : University of London Press, [2021]
Series:New historical perspectives.
Subjects:
Professional employees > Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Professional employees > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Sex role in the work environment > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Sex role in the work environment > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Social change > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Social change > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Professionnels salariés > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Professionnels salariés > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe en milieu de travail > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe en milieu de travail > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sex role in the work environment.
Social change.
Great Britain.
1800-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xv, 332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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