The Position of Working-Class Women in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 11 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It

http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/rowbotham-sheila/hidden-history.htm#s11
http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/rowbotham-sheila/hidden-history.htm#s11
Publisher:  Pluto Press
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX10795

Capitalism broke down the old forms of social relations both at work and between men and women in the family. Middle-class women found themselves cut off from production and economically dependent on a man: working-class women were forced into the factory and became wage-labourers.

Subject Headings

• Women's History