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This fascinating account of young women's lives challenges existing assumptions about working class life and womanhood in England between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the 1950s. While contemporaries commonly portrayed young women as pleasure-loving leisure consumers, this book argues that the world of work was in fact central to their life experiences. Social and economic history are woven together to examine the working, family, and social lives of the maids, factory workers, shop assistants, and clerks who made up the majority of England's young women. Selina Todd traces the complex interaction between class, gender, and locale that shaped young women's roles at work and home, indicating that paid work structured people's lives more profoundly than many social histories suggest. Rich autobiographical accounts show that, while poverty continued to constrain life choices, young women also made their own history. Far from being apathetic workers or pliant consumers, they forged new patterns of occupational and social mobility, were important breadwinners in working class homes, developed a distinct youth culture, and acted as workplace militants. In doing so they helped to shape twentieth-century society.
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the book has important things to say about interwar economic change ... Young women emerge in this history as a critically important force for economic transformation (Susan Pedersen, London Review of Books)
an oustanding contribution to labour history, women's history, and gender historiography. (Economic History Review)
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an oustanding contribution to labour history, women's history, and gender historiography. (Economic History Review)
Selina Todd is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. She was previously Ottilie Hancock History Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, and had held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research. In 2003 she was awarded the Twentieth Century British History Annual Essay Prize.
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