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Major new study of the role of women in the labor market of Industrial Revolution Britain. Joyce Burnette demonstrates that gender differences in occupations and wages were largely driven by market forces and resulted from actual differences in productivity. She shows that rather than harming women competition actually helped them.Burnette, Joyce is the author of 'Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain', published 2008 under ISBN 9780521880633 and ISBN 0521880637.
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